Solar eclipse of July 22, 2028

Solar eclipse of July 22, 2028
Solar eclipse of July 22, 2028
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.6056
Magnitude	1.056
Maximum eclipse
Duration	310 sec (5 m 10 s)
Coordinates	15°36′S 126°42′E / 15.6°S 126.7°E
Max. width of band	230 km (140 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	2:56:40
References
Saros	146 (28 of 76)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9570

Animated path

A total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, July 22, 2028. The central line of the path of the eclipse will cross the Australian continent from the Kimberley region in the north west and continue in a south-easterly direction through Western Australia, the Northern Territory, south-west Queensland and New South Wales, close to the towns of Wyndham, Kununurra, Tennant Creek, Birdsville, Bourke and Dubbo, and continuing on through the centre of Sydney, where the eclipse will have a duration of over three minutes. It will also cross Queenstown and Dunedin, New Zealand. Totality will also be viewable from two of Australia's external territories: Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Island.

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses in 2028[]

A partial lunar eclipse on Wednesday, 12 January 2028.
An annular solar eclipse on Wednesday, 26 January 2028.
A partial lunar eclipse on Thursday, 6 July 2028.
A total solar eclipse on Saturday, 22 July 2028.
A total lunar eclipse on Sunday, 31 December 2028.

Solar eclipses of 2026–2029[]

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2026–2029
Ascending node		Descending node
121	2026 February 17 Annular	126	2026 August 12 Total
131	2027 February 6 Annular	136	2027 August 2 Total
141	2028 January 26 Annular	146	2028 July 22 Total
151	2029 January 14 Partial	156	2029 July 11 Partial
Partial solar eclipses on June 12, 2029, and December 5, 2029, occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 146[]

It is a part of Saros cycle 146, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 76 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on September 19, 1541. It contains total eclipses from May 29, 1938 through October 7, 2154, hybrid eclipses from October 17, 2172 through November 20, 2226, and annular eclipses from December 1, 2244 through August 10, 2659. The series ends at member 76 as a partial eclipse on December 29, 2893. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 21 seconds on June 30, 1992.

Series members 21-37 occur between 1901 and 2200:
21	22	23
May 7, 1902	May 18, 1920	May 29, 1938
24	25	26
June 8, 1956	June 20, 1974	June 30, 1992
27	28	29
July 11, 2010	July 22, 2028	August 2, 2046
30	31	32
August 12, 2064	August 24, 2082	September 4, 2100
33	34	35
September 15, 2118	September 26, 2136	October 7, 2154
36	37
October 17, 2172	October 29, 2190

Metonic cycle[]

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 21–22	May 9–11	February 26–27	December 14–15	October 2–3
106	108	110	112	114
July 21, 1952	May 10, 1956	February 26, 1960	December 16, 1963	October 3, 1967
116	118	120	122	124
July 22, 1971	May 11, 1975	February 26, 1979	December 15, 1982	October 3, 1986
126	128	130	132	134
July 22, 1990	May 10, 1994	February 26, 1998	December 14, 2001	October 3, 2005
136	138	140	142	144
July 22, 2009	May 10, 2013	February 26, 2017	December 14, 2020	October 2, 2024
146	148	150	152	154
July 22, 2028	May 9, 2032	February 27, 2036	December 15, 2039	October 3, 2043
156
July 22, 2047