Solar eclipse of June 1, 2011

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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. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Visibility

Animated path

Gallery

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  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.^{[9][Note 1]}

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011 to 2014

Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
118 Partial from Tromsø, Norway	2011 June 01 Partial (north)	1.21300		123 Hinode XRT footage	2011 November 25 Partial (south)	−1.05359
128 Middlegate, Nevada	2012 May 20 Annular	0.48279		133 Cairns, Australia	2012 November 13 Total	−0.37189
138 Churchills Head, Australia	2013 May 10 Annular	−0.26937		143 Libreville, Gabon	2013 November 03 Hybrid	0.32715
148 Partial from Adelaide, Australia	2014 April 29 Annular (non-central)	−0.99996		153 Partial from Minneapolis	2014 October 23 Partial (north)	1.09078

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

Notes

References

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External links

• Shadow and Substance: Partial Eclipse of the Sun June 1, 2011 Archived December 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
• Midnight's Solar Eclipse
  APOD
  2011/6/3
• SpaceWeather Gallery for partial solar eclipse of June 1, 2011
• Report about the partial eclipse in Bratsk, Russia (in Russian)

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