Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024
| Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 | |
|---|---|
UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 18:46:13 |
| References | |
| Saros | 144 (17 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9562 |
An
apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus
(ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
Other than
Baja California del Sur and Jalisco), and portions of Antarctica
. The eclipse’s magnitude will be 0.93261, occurring only 56 minutes before apogee.
The next solar eclipse occurs on March 29, 2025.
Images
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Related eclipses
The 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.[2] It is also part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events.
Eclipses of 2024
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on 25 March.
- A total solar eclipse on 8 April.
- A partial lunar eclipse on 18 September.
- An annular solar eclipse on 2 October.
See also
References
- ^ "An annular solar eclipse on October 2, 2024". earthsky.org. October 1, 2024. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Archived from the original on September 7, 2019. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
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External links
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by GSFC