Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042

Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042
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Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.303
Magnitude 0.93
Maximum eclipse
Duration 464 sec (7 m 44 s)
Coordinates 23°42′S 137°48′E / 23.7°S 137.8°E / -23.7; 137.8
Max. width of band 273 km (170 mi)
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 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.

This eclipse will be the second eclipse to cross Southeast Asia in 2042 after the total solar eclipse of April 20, 2042.

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Solar eclipses of 2040-2043

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.

Metonic series

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