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Solar eclipse of February 28, 2063

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Nature
  
Annular

Magnitude
  
0.9293

Max. width of band
  
280 km (170 mi)

Start date
  
February 28, 2063

Gamma
  
-0.336

Duration
  
461 sec (7 m 41 s)

Greatest eclipse
  
7:43:30

Solar eclipse of February 28, 2063

An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 28, 2063. 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.

Solar eclipses 2062-2065

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.

References

Solar eclipse of February 28, 2063 Wikipedia