Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9734 Max. width of band 106 km (66 mi) Start date September 22, 2052 | Gamma -0.448 Duration 171 sec (2 m 51 s) Greatest eclipse 23:39:10 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on September 22, 2052. 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 2051-2054
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 September 22, 2052 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA