Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039


An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, June 21, 2039, with a magnitude of 0.9454. 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 days after apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
Annularity will be visible from parts of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, southern Finland, Estonia, Latvia, northeastern Lithuania, western Russia, and Belarus. A partial eclipse will be visible for parts of Hawaii, North America, Europe, Northwest Africa, and northern Russia.
This eclipse will start only a few hours after the northern solstice and most of the path will go across areas with midnight sun. For mainland Norway, Sweden and Belarus, it will be the first central solar eclipse since June 1954.

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 Contact2039 June 21 at 14:36:23.7 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2039 June 21 at 16:03:44.2 UTC
First Central Line2039 June 21 at 16:07:35.0 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2039 June 21 at 16:11:35.6 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2039 June 21 at 17:12:53.8 UTC
Greatest Duration2039 June 21 at 17:13:03.9 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2039 June 21 at 17:22:29.4 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2039 June 21 at 17:22:39.0 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2039 June 21 at 18:14:06.4 UTC
Last Central Line2039 June 21 at 18:18:06.0 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2039 June 21 at 18:21:55.6 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2039 June 21 at 19:49:17.2 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.94542
Eclipse Obscuration0.89382
Gamma0.83117
Sun Right Ascension06h00m54.5s
Sun Declination+23°26'03.6"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'44.3"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension06h00m35.3s
Moon Declination+24°10'44.9"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'45.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'10.2"
ΔT78.3 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.
June 6
Descending node
June 21
Ascending node
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 121		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 147

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Tritos

Solar Saros 147

Inex

Triad