Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Monday, August 22 and Tuesday, August 23, 2044, with a magnitude of 1.0364. 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 2.1 days after perigee, the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.
This will be the last of 41 umbral solar eclipses in Solar Saros 126.

Path

Totality will be visible in the evening of August 22 across:

Northwestern Greenland
In Canada:
* Northern and western Nunavut
* Central Northwest Territories
* Extreme southeast Yukon
* Eastern British Columbia, including Dawson Creek and Fernie
* Much of Alberta including Edmonton, Calgary, and Lethbridge
* Southwestern Saskatchewan, including Swift Current
In the United States:
* The northeastern half of Montana. Glacier National Park, Great Falls, Lewistown, and Forsyth will be just inside the path of totality.
* Western North Dakota, including Williston, Minot, and Dickinson
* Extreme northwest South Dakota

A partial solar eclipse will be visible in Siberia in the morning of August 23, and throughout western Canada and United States until sunset on August 22.
The greatest duration of the total eclipse will be observed in the Northwest Territories, approximately southeast of Great Bear Lake.

Images

Animated path

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	2044 August 22 at 23:10:51.7 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	2044 August 23 at 00:27:10.1 UTC
First Umbral External Contact	2044 August 23 at 00:46:01.0 UTC
First Central Line	2044 August 23 at 00:49:11.6 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact	2044 August 23 at 00:52:44.5 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	2044 August 23 at 01:07:14.0 UTC
Greatest Duration	2044 August 23 at 01:16:35.8 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	2044 August 23 at 01:17:01.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact	2044 August 23 at 01:41:52.4 UTC
Last Central Line	2044 August 23 at 01:45:22.9 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact	2044 August 23 at 01:48:31.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	2044 August 23 at 03:23:35.9 UTC

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	1.03644
Eclipse Obscuration	1.07420
Gamma	0.96130
Sun Right Ascension	10h10m33.4s
Sun Declination	+11°16'02.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter	15'48.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.7"
Moon Right Ascension	10h12m17.2s
Moon Declination	+12°07'34.4"
Moon Semi-Diameter	16'19.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°59'55.1"
ΔT	81.0 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.

August 23 Descending node	September 7 Ascending node

Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 126	Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 138

Related eclipses

Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044

Path

Images

Eclipse details

Eclipse season

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2044

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 126

Inex

Triad