Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9494 Max. width of band 411 km (255 mi) Start date November 4, 2097 | Gamma -0.8926 Duration 216 sec (3 m 36 s) Greatest eclipse 2:01:25 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on November 4, 2097. 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.
This annular eclipse is notable in that the path of annularity passes over the South Pole.
Solar eclipses 2094-2098
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 November 4, 2097 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA