Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018

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Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018
UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:52:33
References
Saros150 (17 of 71)
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A partial solar eclipse took place on February 15, 2018.[1][2][3] 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.

The eclipse took place before sunset in the Southern Cone of South America.

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Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2018

Solar eclipses descending node 2015-2018

Solar eclipses 2015–2018

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.[4]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2015 to 2018
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
120

Longyearbyen, Svalbard 		2015 March 20

Total 		0.94536 125

Solar Dynamics Observatory
2015 September 13

Partial (south) 		−1.10039
130

Balikpapan, Indonesia 		2016 March 9

Total 		0.26092 135

L'Étang-Salé, Réunion 		2016 September 1

Annular 		−0.33301
140

Partial from Buenos Aires 		2017 February 26

Annular 		−0.45780 145

Casper, Wyoming 		2017 August 21

Total 		0.43671
150

Partial from Olivos, Buenos Aires 		2018 February 15

Partial (south) 		−1.21163 155

Partial from Huittinen, Finland 		2018 August 11

Partial (north) 		1.14758

Partial solar eclipses on July 13, 2018, and January 6, 2019, occur during the next semester series.

Saros 150

It is a part of Saros cycle 150, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 24, 1729. It contains annular eclipses from April 22, 2126 through June 22, 2829. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 29, 2991. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 58 seconds on December 19, 2522.

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, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12 April 29–30 February 15–16 December 4–5 September 21–23
116 118 120 122 124

July 11, 1953
April 30, 1957
February 15, 1961
December 4, 1964
September 22, 1968
126 128 130 132 134

July 10, 1972
April 29, 1976
February 16, 1980
December 4, 1983
September 23, 1987
136 138 140 142 144

July 11, 1991
April 29, 1995
February 16, 1999
December 4, 2002
September 22, 2006
146 148 150 152 154

July 11, 2010
April 29, 2014
February 15, 2018
December 4, 2021
September 21, 2025
156 158 160 162 164

July 11, 2029
  1. ^ Rao, Joe (February 14, 2018). "Partial Solar Eclipse Occurs Thursday at the Bottom of the World". Space.com.
  2. ^ "Partial Solar Eclipse 2018: All You Need To Know About The Celestial Event". NDTV.com.
  3. ^ "This solar eclipse 2018 was seen by NASA from space!". India Today.
  4. ^ 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.

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