| Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.303 |
| Magnitude | 0.93 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 7m 44s |
| Coordinates | 23.7S 137.8E |
| Max. width of band | 273 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 2:00:42 |
| References | |
| Saros | 144 (18 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9602 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 14, 2042. 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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| 119 | May 11, 2040 Partial |
124 | November 4, 2040 Annular |
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| 129 | April 30, 2041 Total |
134 | October 25, 2041 Annular |
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| 139 | April 20, 2042 Total |
144 | October 14, 2042 Annular |
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| 149 | April 9, 2043 Total |
154 | October 3, 2043 Annular |
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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 May 21, 1993 and May 20, 2069.
| May 20-21 | March 9 | December 25-26 | October 13-14 | August 1-2 |
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| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
May 21, 1993 |
March 9, 1997 |
December 25, 2000 |
October 14, 2004 |
August 1, 2008 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
May 20, 2012 |
March 9, 2016 |
December 26, 2019 |
October 14, 2023 |
August 2, 2027 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
May 21, 2031 |
March 9, 2035 |
December 26, 2038 |
October 14, 2042 |
August 2, 2046 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
May 20, 2050 |
March 9, 2054 |
December 26, 2057 |
October 13, 2061 |
August 2, 2065 |
| 158 | ||||
May 20, 2069 |
