Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9919 Max. width of band 31 km (19 mi) Start date March 31, 2071 | Gamma -0.3739 Duration 52 sec (0 m 52 s) Greatest eclipse 15:01:06 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on March 31, 2071. 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 2069-2072
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 March 31, 2071 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA