Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024
Introduction An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 2, 2024.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.Other than Easter Island and a small portion near the southern tips of Argentina and Chile, the path of the eclipse's antumbra will be entirely over the Pacific Ocean. The penumbra will be visible from southern South America, Hawaii and portions of Antarctica. Eclipse magnitude is 0.93261, occurring only 56 minutes before apogee.
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Related eclipses === Eclipses of 2024 ===* A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 25. * A total solar eclipse on April 8. * A partial lunar eclipse on September 18. * An annular solar eclipse on October 2.=== Solar eclipses of 2022–2025====== Saros 144 ===It is a part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 11, 1736.It contains annular eclipses from July 7, 1880 through August 27, 2565.There are no total eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 5, 2980.The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 52 seconds on December 29, 2168.Series members 11–21 occur between 1901 and 2100:111213150pxJul 30, 1916150pxAug 10, 1934150pxAug 20, 1952141516150pxAug 31, 1970150pxSep 11, 1988150pxSep 22, 2006171819150pxOct 2, 2024150pxOct 14, 2042150pxOct 24, 20602021150pxNov 4, 2078150pxNov 15, 2096=== Tritos series ===Series members between 1901 and 2100150pxSeptember 9, 1904(Saros 133)150pxAugust 10, 1915(Saros 134)150pxJuly 9, 1926(Saros 135)150pxJune 8, 1937(Saros 136)150pxMay 9, 1948(Saros 137)150pxApril 8, 1959(Saros 138)150pxMarch 7, 1970(Saros 139)150pxFebruary 4, 1981(Saros 140)150pxJanuary 4, 1992(Saros 141)150pxDecember 4, 2002(Saros 142)150pxNovember 3, 2013(Saros 143)150pxOctober 2, 2024(Saros 144)150pxSeptember 2, 2035(Saros 145)150pxAugust 2, 2046(Saros 146)150pxJuly 1, 2057(Saros 147)150pxMay 31, 2068(Saros 148)150pxMay 1, 2079(Saros 149)150pxMarch 31, 2090(Saros 150)=== Metonic cycle===
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