| Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.9954 |
| Magnitude | 0.96 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 2m 27s |
| Coordinates | 62.2S 25.6W |
| Max. width of band | - km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 20:24:40 |
| References | |
| Saros | 121 (62 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9605 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on February 28, 2044. 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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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 28, 2044 Annular |
126 | August 23, 2044 Total |
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| 131 | February 16, 2045 Annular |
136 | August 12, 2045 Total |
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| 141 | February 5, 2046 Annular |
146 | August 2, 2046 Total |
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| 151 | January 26, 2047 Partial |
156 | July 22, 2047 Partial |
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| Partial solar eclipses on June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur on the next lunar year eclipse set. | ||||||
