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Partial solar eclipse of April 30, 2022 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Saturday, April 30, 2022,[1][2][3][4] with a magnitude of 0.6396. 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.
The eclipse was visible in parts of southern and central South America and Antarctica.
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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.[5]
| Event | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2022 April 30 at 18:46:30.1 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2022 April 30 at 19:41:58.7 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2022 April 30 at 20:29:14.9 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2022 April 30 at 20:42:36.5 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2022 April 30 at 22:39:11.9 UTC |
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.63963 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.54175 |
| Gamma | −1.19008 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 02h32m15.6s |
| Sun Declination | +14°57'53.5" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'52.6" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 02h34m04.8s |
| Moon Declination | +13°57'48.8" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 15'04.0" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°55'17.7" |
| ΔT | 70.7 s |
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) 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.
| April 30 Ascending node (new moon) | May 16 Descending node (full moon) |
|---|---|
 |  |
| Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 119 | Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 131 |
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.[6]
| Solar eclipse series sets from 2022 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
119 Partial in CTIO, Chile |
April 30, 2022 Partial |
−1.19008 | 124 Partial from Saratov, Russia |
October 25, 2022 Partial |
1.07014 | |
129.jpg) Partial in Magetan, Indonesia |
April 20, 2023 Hybrid |
−0.39515 | 134_Nicole_Sharp_IMG_2807_(square_crop).png) Annularity in Hobbs, NM, USA |
October 14, 2023 Annular |
0.37534 | |
139.jpg) Totality in Dallas, TX, USA |
April 8, 2024 Total |
0.34314 | 144 Annularity in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina |
October 2, 2024 Annular |
−0.35087 | |
| 149 | March 29, 2025 Partial |
1.04053 | 154 | September 21, 2025 Partial |
−1.06509 | |
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 119, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 15, 850 AD. It contains total eclipses on August 9, 994 AD and August 20, 1012; a hybrid eclipse on August 31, 1030; and annular eclipses from September 10, 1048 through March 18, 1950. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 24, 2112. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of totality was produced by member 10 at 32 seconds on August 20, 1012, and the longest duration of annularity was produced by member 44 at 7 minutes, 37 seconds on September 1, 1625. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[7]
| Series members 54–71 occur between 1801 and 2112: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 54 | 55 | 56 |
 December 21, 1805 |
 January 1, 1824 |
 January 11, 1842 |
| 57 | 58 | 59 |
 January 23, 1860 |
 February 2, 1878 |
 February 13, 1896 |
| 60 | 61 | 62 |
 February 25, 1914 |
 March 7, 1932 |
 March 18, 1950 |
| 63 | 64 | 65 |
 March 28, 1968 |
 April 9, 1986 |
 April 19, 2004 |
| 66 | 67 | 68 |
April 30, 2022 |
 May 11, 2040 |
 May 22, 2058 |
| 69 | 70 | 71 |
 June 1, 2076 |
 June 13, 2094 |
 June 24, 2112 |
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.
| 21 eclipse events between July 13, 2018 and July 12, 2094 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 12–13 | April 30–May 1 | February 16–17 | December 5–6 | September 22–23 |
| 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
 July 13, 2018 |
April 30, 2022 |
 February 17, 2026 |
 December 5, 2029 |
 September 23, 2033 |
| 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
 July 13, 2037 |
 April 30, 2041 |
 February 16, 2045 |
 December 5, 2048 |
 September 22, 2052 |
| 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
 July 12, 2056 |
 April 30, 2060 |
 February 17, 2064 |
 December 6, 2067 |
 September 23, 2071 |
| 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
 July 13, 2075 |
 May 1, 2079 |
 February 16, 2083 |
 December 6, 2086 |
 September 23, 2090 |
| 157 | ||||
 July 12, 2094 | ||||
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
The partial solar eclipses on April 8, 1902 (part of Saros 108) and January 5, 1935 (part of Saros 111) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.
| Series members between 2000 and 2200 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 July 1, 2000 (Saros 117) |
 June 1, 2011 (Saros 118) |
April 30, 2022 (Saros 119) |
 March 30, 2033 (Saros 120) |
 February 28, 2044 (Saros 121) |
 January 27, 2055 (Saros 122) |
 December 27, 2065 (Saros 123) |
 November 26, 2076 (Saros 124) |
 October 26, 2087 (Saros 125) |
 September 25, 2098 (Saros 126) |
 August 26, 2109 (Saros 127) |
 July 25, 2120 (Saros 128) |
 June 25, 2131 (Saros 129) |
 May 25, 2142 (Saros 130) |
 April 23, 2153 (Saros 131) |
 March 23, 2164 (Saros 132) |
 February 21, 2175 (Saros 133) |
 January 20, 2186 (Saros 134) |
 December 19, 2196 (Saros 135) | |
This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
| Series members between 1801 and 2200 | ||
|---|---|---|
 September 19, 1819 (Saros 112) |
 August 28, 1848 (Saros 113) |
 August 9, 1877 (Saros 114) |
 July 21, 1906 (Saros 115) |
 June 30, 1935 (Saros 116) |
 June 10, 1964 (Saros 117) |
 May 21, 1993 (Saros 118) |
April 30, 2022 (Saros 119) |
 April 11, 2051 (Saros 120) |
 March 21, 2080 (Saros 121) |
 March 1, 2109 (Saros 122) |
 February 9, 2138 (Saros 123) |
 January 21, 2167 (Saros 124) |
 December 31, 2195 (Saros 125) |
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