Solar eclipse of April 21, 2088

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, April 21, 2088, with a magnitude of 1.0474. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 1.8 days before perigee, the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.
The path of totality will be visible from parts of Cape Verde, Mauritania, Western Sahara, northern Mali, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, southern Italy, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, southern Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and western China. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of eastern Canada, Greenland, Europe, West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Note that the central line of this total solar eclipse follows a path extremely similar to that of the annular eclipse that occurred 112 years earlier on April 29, 1976.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.

Event	Time
First Penumbral External Contact	2088 April 21 at 07:56:26.3 UTC
First Umbral External Contact	2088 April 21 at 08:55:25.1 UTC
First Central Line	2088 April 21 at 08:56:20.7 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact	2088 April 21 at 08:57:16.5 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact	2088 April 21 at 10:10:39.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	2088 April 21 at 10:27:31.4 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	2088 April 21 at 10:31:49.5 UTC
Greatest Duration	2088 April 21 at 10:35:01.4 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	2088 April 21 at 10:42:59.9 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact	2088 April 21 at 10:52:42.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact	2088 April 21 at 12:06:12.1 UTC
Last Central Line	2088 April 21 at 12:07:09.8 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact	2088 April 21 at 12:08:07.4 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	2088 April 21 at 13:07:03.4 UTC

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	1.04745
Eclipse Obscuration	1.09715
Gamma	0.41352
Sun Right Ascension	02h00m30.3s
Sun Declination	+12°16'07.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter	15'54.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.8"
Moon Right Ascension	02h00m04.9s
Moon Declination	+12°40'11.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter	16'25.1"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	1°00'15.3"
ΔT	112.6 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.