Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018

A partial solar eclipse took place on February 15, 2018. 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.

Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018
From Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	-1.2116
Magnitude	0.5991
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	71°S 0.6°E / -71; 0.6
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:52:33
References
Saros	150 (17 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9547

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

Images

Animated path

Gallery

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  Time lapse images as viewed from Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  From Ramos Mejía, Argentina, 22:13 UTC

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2018

• A total lunar eclipse on January 31.
• A partial solar eclipse on February 15.
• A partial solar eclipse on July 13.
• A total lunar eclipse on July 27.
• A partial solar eclipse on August 11.

Solar eclipses descending node 2015-2018

• Saros 120: Total Solar Eclipse March 20, 2015
• Saros 130: Total Solar Eclipse March 8–9, 2016
• Saros 140: Annular Solar Eclipse February 26, 2017
• Saros 150: Partial Solar Eclipse February 15, 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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2015–2018

Ascending node				Descending 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.

Series members 11-21 occur between 1901 and 2100:
11	12	13
December 12, 1909	December 24, 1927	January 3, 1946
14	15	16
January 14, 1964	January 25, 1982	February 5, 2000
17	18	19
February 15, 2018	February 27, 2036	March 9, 2054
20	21
March 19, 2072	March 31, 2090

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

External links

• NASA chart
• NASA animation
• Partial Solar Eclipse of 2018 February 15
• APOD 2/20/2018