Solar eclipse of July 24, 2055

Solar eclipse of July 24, 2055
Solar eclipse of July 24, 2055
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.8012
Magnitude	1.0359
Maximum eclipse
Duration	197 sec (3 m 17 s)
Coordinates	33°18′S 25°48′E / 33.3°S 25.8°E
Max. width of band	202 km (126 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	9:57:50
References
Saros	127 (60 of 82)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9631

A total solar eclipse will occur on July 24, 2055. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

Related eclipses[]

Solar eclipses 2054–2058[]

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 2054-58
Ascending node		Descending node
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
117	August 3, 2054 Partial	122	January 27, 2055 Partial
127	July 24, 2055 Total	132	January 16, 2056 Annular
137	July 12, 2056 Annular	142	January 5, 2057 Total
147	July 1, 2057 Annular	152	December 26, 2057 Total
157	June 21, 2058 Partial

Saros 127[]

It is a part of Saros cycle 127, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 82 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 10, 991 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 14, 1352 through August 15, 2091. There are no annular eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 82 as a partial eclipse on March 21, 2452. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 40 seconds on August 30, 1532. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.^[2]

Series members 52–68 occur between 1901 and 2200
52	53	54
April 28, 1911	May 9, 1929	May 20, 1947
55	56	57
May 30, 1965	June 11, 1983	June 21, 2001
58	59	60
July 2, 2019	July 13, 2037	July 24, 2055
61	62	63
August 3, 2073	August 15, 2091	August 26, 2109 (Partial)
64	65	66
September 6, 2127 (Partial	September 16, 2145 (Partial)	September 28, 2163 (Partial)
67	68
October 8, 2181 (Partial)	October 19, 2199 (Partial)

References[]

^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ "Solar Saros series 127". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

External links[]

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[1] van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

[2] "Solar Saros series 127". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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