Solar eclipse of January 5, 2038


An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, January 5, 2038, with a magnitude of 0.9728. 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. The Moon's apparent diameter will be near the average diameter because it will occur 6.8 days after perigee and 7 days before apogee.
Annularity will be visible from parts of Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, northwestern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, southeastern Libya, northwestern Sudan, and southwestern Egypt. A partial eclipse will be visible for parts of eastern North America, Central America, the Caribbean, northern South America, Europe, and the northern two-thirds of Africa.

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 Contact2038 January 5 at 11:00:02.2 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2038 January 5 at 12:04:34.3 UTC
First Central Line2038 January 5 at 12:06:00.3 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2038 January 5 at 12:07:26.6 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact2038 January 5 at 13:31:44.8 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2038 January 5 at 13:42:33.7 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2038 January 5 at 13:47:10.9 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2038 January 5 at 13:47:52.0 UTC
Greatest Duration2038 January 5 at 13:53:53.7 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact2038 January 5 at 14:02:34.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2038 January 5 at 15:26:52.5 UTC
Last Central Line2038 January 5 at 15:28:21.8 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2038 January 5 at 15:29:50.8 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2038 January 5 at 16:34:26.0 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.97279
Eclipse Obscuration0.94632
Gamma0.41689
Sun Right Ascension19h06m27.4s
Sun Declination-22°33'17.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'15.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension19h06m25.9s
Moon Declination-22°09'29.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter15'35.7"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°57'13.9"
ΔT77.6 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.
January 5
Descending node
January 21
Ascending node
Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 132		Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 144

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2038

An annular solar eclipse on January 5.

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 132

Inex

Triad