Solar Saros 156


Saros cycle series 156 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 69 eclipses, 52 of which will be umbral. The first, and so far only, eclipse in the series was on Solar eclipse of [July 1, 2011|1 July 2011] and the last will be on 14 July 3237. The next eclipse will be a partial eclipse on 11 July 2029. This series is the most recent series to begin.
The longest eclipse will be 8 minutes 28 seconds on 3 May 2516.
This solar saros is linked to Lunar [Saros 149].

Umbral eclipses

Umbral eclipses Central Central Non-Central. The statistical distribution of these classes in Saros series 156 appears in the following table.
ClassificationNumberPercent
All Umbral eclipses52100.00%
Central 5198.08%
Central 11.92%
Non-central 00.00%