Solar eclipse of September 23, 2071

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, September 23, 2071,^[1] with a magnitude of 1.0333. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 2.5 days before perigee (on September 21, 2071, at 5:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.^[2]

Solar eclipse of September 23, 2071

Total eclipse
Map
Gamma	0.262
Magnitude	1.0333
Maximum eclipse
Duration	191 s (3 min 11 s)
Coordinates	14.2°N 76.7°W / 14.2; -76.7
Max. width of band	116 km (72 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	17:20:28
References
Saros	145 (25 of 77)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9668
← March 31, 2071 March 19, 2072 →

The path of totality will be visible from parts of northern Mexico, northern Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, far northern Brazil, Suriname, and French Guiana. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Hawaii, North America, Central America, the Caribbean, northern and central South America, and West Africa.

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.^[3]

September 23, 2071 Solar Eclipse Times

Event	Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact	2071 September 23 at 14:38:55.1 UTC
First Umbral External Contact	2071 September 23 at 15:37:23.6 UTC
First Central Line	2071 September 23 at 15:37:53.7 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact	2071 September 23 at 15:38:23.8 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact	2071 September 23 at 16:40:44.4 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	2071 September 23 at 17:11:32.7 UTC
Greatest Duration	2071 September 23 at 17:18:47.4 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	2071 September 23 at 17:20:28.0 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	2071 September 23 at 17:23:14.4 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact	2071 September 23 at 18:00:25.0 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact	2071 September 23 at 19:02:41.8 UTC
Last Central Line	2071 September 23 at 19:03:09.5 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact	2071 September 23 at 19:03:37.1 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	2071 September 23 at 20:02:10.4 UTC

September 23, 2071 Solar Eclipse Parameters

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	1.03329
Eclipse Obscuration	1.06769
Gamma	0.26200
Sun Right Ascension	12h02m56.7s
Sun Declination	-00°19'08.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter	15'56.2"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.8"
Moon Right Ascension	12h03m15.7s
Moon Declination	-00°04'20.0"
Moon Semi-Diameter	16'12.3"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°59'28.3"
ΔT	98.8 s

Eclipse season

See also: Eclipse cycle

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.

Eclipse season of September 2071

September 9 Descending node (full moon)	September 23 Ascending node (new moon)
Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 119	Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 145

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2071

• A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 16.
• An annular solar eclipse on March 31.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on September 9.
• A total solar eclipse on September 23.

Metonic

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 6, 2067
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 13, 2075

Tzolkinex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 12, 2064
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 4, 2078

Half-Saros

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 18, 2062
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 29, 2080

Tritos

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 24, 2060
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 24, 2082

Solar Saros 145

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 2053
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 4, 2089

Inex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100

Triad

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 22, 1984
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 25, 2158

Solar eclipses of 2069–2072

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.^[4]

The partial solar eclipse on May 20, 2069 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2069 to 2072
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
120	April 21, 2069 Partial	1.0624		125	October 15, 2069 Partial	−1.2524
130	April 11, 2070 Total	0.3652		135	October 4, 2070 Annular	−0.495
140	March 31, 2071 Annular	−0.3739		145	September 23, 2071 Total	0.262
150	March 19, 2072 Partial	−1.1405		155	September 12, 2072 Total	0.9655

Saros 145

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 145, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 77 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on January 4, 1639. It contains an annular eclipse on June 6, 1891; a hybrid eclipse on June 17, 1909; and total eclipses from June 29, 1927 through September 9, 2648. The series ends at member 77 as a partial eclipse on April 17, 3009. 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 annularity was produced by member 15 at 6 seconds (by default) on June 6, 1891, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 50 at 7 minutes, 12 seconds on June 25, 2522. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.^[5]

Series members 10–32 occur between 1801 and 2200:
10	11	12
April 13, 1801	April 24, 1819	May 4, 1837
13	14	15
May 16, 1855	May 26, 1873	June 6, 1891
16	17	18
June 17, 1909	June 29, 1927	July 9, 1945
19	20	21
July 20, 1963	July 31, 1981	August 11, 1999
22	23	24
August 21, 2017	September 2, 2035	September 12, 2053
25	26	27
September 23, 2071	October 4, 2089	October 16, 2107
28	29	30
October 26, 2125	November 7, 2143	November 17, 2161
31	32
November 28, 2179	December 9, 2197

Metonic series

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

Tritos series

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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
October 9, 1809 (Saros 121)	September 7, 1820 (Saros 122)	August 7, 1831 (Saros 123)	July 8, 1842 (Saros 124)	June 6, 1853 (Saros 125)
May 6, 1864 (Saros 126)	April 6, 1875 (Saros 127)	March 5, 1886 (Saros 128)	February 1, 1897 (Saros 129)	January 3, 1908 (Saros 130)
December 3, 1918 (Saros 131)	November 1, 1929 (Saros 132)	October 1, 1940 (Saros 133)	September 1, 1951 (Saros 134)	July 31, 1962 (Saros 135)
June 30, 1973 (Saros 136)	May 30, 1984 (Saros 137)	April 29, 1995 (Saros 138)	March 29, 2006 (Saros 139)	February 26, 2017 (Saros 140)
January 26, 2028 (Saros 141)	December 26, 2038 (Saros 142)	November 25, 2049 (Saros 143)	October 24, 2060 (Saros 144)	September 23, 2071 (Saros 145)
August 24, 2082 (Saros 146)	July 23, 2093 (Saros 147)	June 22, 2104 (Saros 148)	May 24, 2115 (Saros 149)	April 22, 2126 (Saros 150)
March 21, 2137 (Saros 151)	February 19, 2148 (Saros 152)	January 19, 2159 (Saros 153)	December 18, 2169 (Saros 154)	November 17, 2180 (Saros 155)
October 18, 2191 (Saros 156)

Inex series

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
March 24, 1811 (Saros 136)	March 4, 1840 (Saros 137)	February 11, 1869 (Saros 138)
January 22, 1898 (Saros 139)	January 3, 1927 (Saros 140)	December 14, 1955 (Saros 141)
November 22, 1984 (Saros 142)	November 3, 2013 (Saros 143)	October 14, 2042 (Saros 144)
September 23, 2071 (Saros 145)	September 4, 2100 (Saros 146)	August 15, 2129 (Saros 147)
July 25, 2158 (Saros 148)	July 6, 2187 (Saros 149)