An annular solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, January 27, 2074. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's 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.
| Solar eclipse of January 27, 2074 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.4251 |
| Magnitude | 0.9798 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 141 s (2 min 21 s) |
| Coordinates | 6°36′N 78°48′E / 6.6°N 78.8°E |
| Max. width of band | 79 km (49 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 6:44:15 |
| References | |
| Saros | 132 (49 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9673 |
Related eclipses edit
Solar eclipses 2073–2076 edit
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.[1]
| 122 | February 7, 2073 Partial |
127 | August 3, 2073 Total |
| 132 | January 27, 2074 Annular |
137 | July 24, 2074 Annular |
| 142 | January 16, 2075 Total |
147 | July 13, 2075 Annular |
| 152 | January 6, 2076 Total |
157 | July 1, 2076 Partial |
References edit
- ^ 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.
External links edit
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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