Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047

Future partial solar eclipse

66°24′S 6°36′W / 66.4°S 6.6°W / -66.4; -6.6Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse23:50:12ReferencesSaros123 (55 of 70)Catalog # (SE5000)9614

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, December 16, 2047, with a magnitude of 0.8816. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

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Eclipses in 2047

A total lunar eclipse on January 12, 2047.
A partial solar eclipse on January 26, 2047.
A partial solar eclipse on June 23, 2047.
A total lunar eclipse on July 7, 2047.
A partial solar eclipse on July 22, 2047.
A partial solar eclipse on December 16, 2047.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044
Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 4, 2051

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 4, 2040
Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 27, 2055

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of December 11, 2038
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of December 22, 2056

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 15, 1961
Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 17, 2134

Solar eclipses of 2047–2050

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.^[1]

Note: Partial lunar eclipses on January 26, 2047 and July 22, 2047 occur on the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse sets from 2047 to 2050
Descending node		Ascending node
118	June 23, 2047 Partial	123	December 16, 2047 Partial
128	June 11, 2048 Annular	133	December 5, 2048 Total
138	May 31, 2049 Annular	143	November 25, 2049 Hybrid
148	May 20, 2050 Hybrid	153	November 14, 2050 Partial

Saros 123

It is a part of Saros cycle 123, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on April 29, 1074. It contains annular eclipses from July 2, 1182 through April 19, 1651, hybrid eclipses from April 30, 1669 through May 22, 1705, and total eclipses from June 3, 1723 through October 23, 1957. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 31, 2318. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 27 seconds on July 27, 1813.

Series members 47–63 occur between 1900 and 2200:
47	48	49
September 21, 1903	October 1, 1921	October 12, 1939
50	51	52
October 23, 1957	November 3, 1975	November 13, 1993
53	54	55
November 25, 2011	December 5, 2029	December 16, 2047
56	57	58
December 27, 2065	January 7, 2084	January 19, 2102
59	60	61
January 30, 2120	February 9, 2138	February 21, 2156
62	63
March 3, 2174	March 13, 2192

References

^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

External links

Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Google interactive map
- Besselian elements

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By era	Antiquity Middle Ages Modern era 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd Future
Saros series (list)	109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162
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Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)