Nature Annular Magnitude 0.96 Max. width of band - km Start date February 28, 2044 | Gamma -0.9954 Duration 147 sec (2 m 27 s) Greatest eclipse 20:24:40 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 28, 2044. 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 of 2044-2047
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 28, 2044 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA