Solar eclipse of February 5, 2046


An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Monday, February 5 and Tuesday, February 6, 2046, with a magnitude of 0.9232. 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. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 2.25 days before apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
The path of annularity will be visible from parts of eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Hawaii, and California, Oregon, Nevada, and Idaho in the United States. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Oceania, and western North America.

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.
EventTime
First Penumbral External Contact2046 February 5 at 20:05:17.8 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2046 February 5 at 21:13:07.7 UTC
First Central Line2046 February 5 at 21:16:34.4 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2046 February 5 at 21:20:02.1 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact2046 February 5 at 22:42:57.6 UTC
Greatest Duration2046 February 5 at 22:50:22.5 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2046 February 5 at 23:06:26.2 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2046 February 5 at 23:10:57.3 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2046 February 5 at 23:25:48.6 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact2046 February 5 at 23:29:25.4 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2046 February 6 at 00:52:36.8 UTC
Last Central Line2046 February 6 at 00:56:06.1 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2046 February 6 at 00:59:34.4 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2046 February 6 at 02:07:29.5 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.92321
Eclipse Obscuration0.85231
Gamma0.37654
Sun Right Ascension21h19m00.8s
Sun Declination-15°38'42.4"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'13.2"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension21h18m27.2s
Moon Declination-15°20'02.1"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'46.0"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'11.7"
ΔT81.8 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.
January 22
Descending node
February 5
Ascending node
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 115		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 141

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