Solar eclipse of March 10, 2100


An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Wednesday, March 10 and Thursday, March 11, 2100, with a magnitude of 0.9338. 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 2.9 days before apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
The path of annularity will be visible from parts of northeastern Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Hawaii, California, Oregon, northwestern Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota in the United States. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Australia, Oceania, and North America.

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 Contact2100 March 10 at 19:26:43.1 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2100 March 10 at 20:33:05.4 UTC
First Central Line2100 March 10 at 20:36:01.0 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2100 March 10 at 20:38:57.2 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact2100 March 10 at 21:52:49.6 UTC
Greatest Duration2100 March 10 at 22:21:55.8 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2100 March 10 at 22:28:11.0 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2100 March 10 at 22:31:51.0 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2100 March 10 at 22:48:12.9 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact2100 March 10 at 23:03:03.0 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2100 March 11 at 00:17:11.1 UTC
Last Central Line2100 March 11 at 00:20:09.1 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2100 March 11 at 00:23:06.7 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2100 March 11 at 01:29:34.7 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.93384
Eclipse Obscuration0.87205
Gamma0.30770
Sun Right Ascension23h24m46.6s
Sun Declination-03°47'43.4"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'06.4"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension23h24m14.3s
Moon Declination-03°33'06.4"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'49.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'24.7"
ΔT123.8 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.
February 24
Descending node
March 10
Ascending node
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 115		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 141

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Inex

Triad