Nature Annular Magnitude 0.963 Max. width of band 616 km (383 mi) Start date February 17, 2026 | Gamma -0.9743 Duration 140 sec (2 m 20 s) Greatest eclipse 12:13:06 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 17, 2026. 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 (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
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Solar eclipses 2026-2029
Each member 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.
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Solar eclipse of February 17, 2026 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA