Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9878 Max. width of band 43 km (27 mi) Start date July 12, 2056 | Gamma -0.0426 Duration 86 sec (1 m 26 s) Greatest eclipse 20:21:59 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on July 12, 2056. 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 2054-2058
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 July 12, 2056 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA