| Solar eclipse of February 17, 2026 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.9743 |
| Magnitude | 0.963 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 2m 20s |
| Coordinates | 64.7S 86.8E |
| Max. width of band | 616 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 12:13:06 |
| References | |
| Saros | 121 (61 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9565 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 17, 2026. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
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Animated path
This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
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| 121 | February 17, 2026 Annular |
126 | August 12, 2026 Total |
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| 131 | February 6, 2027 Annular |
136 | August 2, 2027 Total |
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| 141 | January 26, 2028 Annular |
146 | July 22, 2028 Total |
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| 151 | January 14, 2029 Partial |
156 | July 11, 2029 Partial |
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| Partial solar eclipses on June 12, 2029 and December 5, 2029 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set. | ||||||
