Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9798 Max. width of band 79 km (49 mi) Start date January 27, 2074 | Gamma 0.4251 Duration 141 sec (2 m 21 s) Greatest eclipse 6:44:15 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on January 27, 2074. 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 2073-2076
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 January 27, 2074 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA