| Solar eclipse of May 31, 2003 | |
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Partial from Oudenaarde, Belgium |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.996 |
| Magnitude | 0.9384 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 3m 37s |
| Coordinates | 66.6N 24.5W |
| Max. width of band | - km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 4:09:22 |
| References | |
| Saros | 147 (22 of 80) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9515 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 31, 2003. 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.
Annularity was visible across central Greenland and northern Scotland. Partiality was visible throughout Europe, Asia, and far northwestern Canada.
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This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
Note: Partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 117 | July 1, 2000 Partial (south) |
122 | December 25, 2000 Partial (north) |
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| 127 Totality from Zambia |
June 21, 2001 Total |
132 Partial from Minneapolis, MN |
December 14, 2001 Annular |
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| 137 Partial Los Angeles, CA |
June 10, 2002 Annular |
142 | December 4, 2002 Total |
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| 147 Partial from Belfort |
May 31, 2003 Annular |
152 | November 23, 2003 Total |
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The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days).
This series has 21 eclipse events between August 12, 1942 and August 11, 2018.
| August 10-12 | May 30 | March 18 | January 4-5 | October 23-24 |
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| 115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
August 12, 1942 |
May 30, 1946 |
March 18, 1950 |
January 5, 1954 |
October 23, 1957 |
| 125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
August 11, 1961 |
May 30, 1965 |
March 18, 1969 |
January 4, 1973 |
October 23, 1976 |
| 135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
August 10, 1980 |
May 30, 1984 |
March 18, 1988 |
January 4, 1992 |
October 24, 1995 |
| 145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
August 11, 1999 |
May 31, 2003 |
March 19, 2007 |
January 4, 2011 |
October 23, 2014 |
| 155 | ||||
August 11, 2018 |
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