Solar eclipse of June 1, 2011

Solar eclipse of June 1, 2011
Solar eclipse of June 1, 2011
	Partial from Tromsø, Norway
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.213
Magnitude	0.601
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	67°48′N 46°48′E / 67.8°N 46.8°E
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	19:25:17
Greatest eclipse	21:17:18
(P4) Partial end	23:06:57
References
Saros	118 (68 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9532

A partial solar eclipse occurred on June 1, 2011. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

This eclipse is the second of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on January 4, 2011, July 1, 2011, and November 25, 2011. The eclipse belonged to Saros 118 and was number 68 of 72 eclipses in the series.

The eclipse was special since it occurred around midnight in northern Fennoscandia and northern Russia partially obscuring the midnight sun.

Visibility[]

Animated path

Gallery[]

End of the eclipse seen from Tromsø, Norway

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2011[]

A partial solar eclipse on January 4.
A partial solar eclipse on June 1.
A total lunar eclipse on June 15.
A partial solar eclipse on July 1.
A partial solar eclipse on November 25.
A total lunar eclipse on December 10.

Solar eclipses 2011–2014[]

This eclipse is a member of the 2011–2014 solar eclipse 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]^{[Note 1]}

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011–2014
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
118 Partial from Tromsø, Norway	2011 June 01 Partial (north)	1.2130	123	2011 November 25 Partial (south)	-1.0536
128 Middlegate, Nevada	2012 May 20 Annular	0.4828	133 Cairns, Australia	2012 November 13 Total	-0.3719
138 Churchills Head, Australia	2013 May 10 Annular	-0.2693	143 Partial from Libreville, Gabon	2013 November 03 Hybrid	0.3271
148 Partial from Adelaide, Australia	2014 April 29 Annular (non-central)	-0.9999	153 Partial from Minneapolis	2014 October 23 Partial (north)	1.0908

Saros 118[]

It is a part of Saros cycle 118, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 24, 803 AD. It contains total eclipses from August 19, 947 AD through October 25, 1650, hybrid eclipses on November 4, 1668 and November 15, 1686, and annular eclipses from November 27, 1704 through April 30, 1957. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on July 15, 2083. The longest duration of total was 6 minutes, 59 seconds on May 16, 1398.

Series members 62–72 occur between 1901 and 2083:
62	63	64
Mar 29, 1903	Apr 8, 1921	Apr 19, 1939
65	66	67
Apr 30, 1957	May 11, 1975	May 21, 1993
68	69	70
Jun 1, 2011	Jun 12, 2029	Jun 23, 2047
71	72
Jul 3, 2065	Jul 15, 2083

Metonic series[]

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 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and June 1, 2087
May 31 – June 1	March 19–20	January 5–6	October 24–25	August 12–13
118	120	122	124	126
June 1, 2011	March 20, 2015	January 6, 2019	October 25, 2022	August 12, 2026
128	130	132	134	136
June 1, 2030	March 20, 2034	January 5, 2038	October 25, 2041	August 12, 2045
138	140	142	144	146
May 31, 2049	March 20, 2053	January 5, 2057	October 24, 2060	August 12, 2064
148	150	152	154	156
May 31, 2068	March 19, 2072	January 6, 2076	October 24, 2079	August 13, 2083
158	160	162	164	166
June 1, 2087			October 24, 2098