Solar eclipse of January 6, 2076

Solar eclipse of January 6, 2076
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma−0.9373
Magnitude1.0342
Maximum eclipse
Duration109 s (1 min 49 s)
Coordinates87°12′S 173°42′W / 87.2°S 173.7°W / -87.2; -173.7
Max. width of band340 km (210 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse10:07:27
References
Saros152 (16 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9677

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, January 6, 2076,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0342. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 8.5 hours before perigee (on January 6, 2076, at 18:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]

This will be the first of four solar eclipses in 2076, with the others occurring on June 1, July 1, and November 26.

The path of totality will be visible from parts of Antarctica. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of southern South America, Antarctica, and southwestern Australia.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[3]

January 6, 2076 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2076 January 06 at 08:01:50.9 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 2076 January 06 at 09:30:07.4 UTC
First Central Line 2076 January 06 at 09:32:18.8 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 2076 January 06 at 09:34:37.8 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2076 January 06 at 10:05:23.8 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2076 January 06 at 10:07:27.5 UTC
Greatest Duration 2076 January 06 at 10:07:36.9 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2076 January 06 at 10:16:52.4 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 2076 January 06 at 10:40:18.1 UTC
Last Central Line 2076 January 06 at 10:42:37.7 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 2076 January 06 at 10:44:49.5 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2076 January 06 at 12:13:04.2 UTC
January 6, 2076 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 1.03424
Eclipse Obscuration 1.06965
Gamma −0.93732
Sun Right Ascension 19h09m11.6s
Sun Declination -22°28'36.7"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'15.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9"
Moon Right Ascension 19h09m16.9s
Moon Declination -23°26'00.6"
Moon Semi-Diameter 16'43.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'24.1"
ΔT 102.2 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of December 2075–January 2076
December 22
Ascending node (full moon)
January 6
Descending node (new moon)
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 126
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 152

Eclipses in 2076

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 152

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2073–2076

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[4]

The partial solar eclipses on June 1, 2076 and November 26, 2076 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2073 to 2076
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
122 February 7, 2073

Partial
1.1651 127 August 3, 2073

Total
−0.8763
132 January 27, 2074

Annular
0.4251 137 July 24, 2074

Annular
−0.1242
142 January 16, 2075

Total
−0.2799 147 July 13, 2075

Annular
0.6583
152 January 6, 2076

Total
−0.9373 157 July 1, 2076

Partial
1.4005

Saros 152

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 152, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 26, 1805. It contains total eclipses from November 2, 1967 through September 14, 2490; hybrid eclipses from September 26, 2508 through October 17, 2544; and annular eclipses from October 29, 2562 through June 16, 2941. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on August 20, 3049. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 30 at 5 minutes, 16 seconds on June 9, 2328, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 53 at 5 minutes, 20 seconds on February 16, 2743. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[5]

Series members 1–22 occur between 1805 and 2200:
1 2 3

July 26, 1805

August 6, 1823

August 16, 1841
4 5 6

August 28, 1859

September 7, 1877

September 18, 1895
7 8 9

September 30, 1913

October 11, 1931

October 21, 1949
10 11 12

November 2, 1967

November 12, 1985

November 23, 2003
13 14 15

December 4, 2021

December 15, 2039

December 26, 2057
16 17 18

January 6, 2076

January 16, 2094

January 29, 2112
19 20 21

February 8, 2130

February 19, 2148

March 2, 2166
22

March 12, 2184

Metonic series

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

22 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and October 24, 2098
May 31–June 1 March 19–20 January 5–6 October 24–25 August 12–13
118 120 122 124 126

June 1, 2011

March 20, 2015

January 6, 2019

October 25, 2022

August 12, 2026
128 130 132 134 136

June 1, 2030

March 20, 2034

January 5, 2038

October 25, 2041

August 12, 2045
138 140 142 144 146

May 31, 2049

March 20, 2053

January 5, 2057

October 24, 2060

August 12, 2064
148 150 152 154 156

May 31, 2068

March 19, 2072

January 6, 2076

October 24, 2079

August 13, 2083
158 160 162 164

June 1, 2087

October 24, 2098

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

February 21, 1803
(Saros 127)

January 21, 1814
(Saros 128)

December 20, 1824
(Saros 129)

November 20, 1835
(Saros 130)

October 20, 1846
(Saros 131)

September 18, 1857
(Saros 132)

August 18, 1868
(Saros 133)

July 19, 1879
(Saros 134)

June 17, 1890
(Saros 135)

May 18, 1901
(Saros 136)

April 17, 1912
(Saros 137)

March 17, 1923
(Saros 138)

February 14, 1934
(Saros 139)

January 14, 1945
(Saros 140)

December 14, 1955
(Saros 141)

November 12, 1966
(Saros 142)

October 12, 1977
(Saros 143)

September 11, 1988
(Saros 144)

August 11, 1999
(Saros 145)

July 11, 2010
(Saros 146)

June 10, 2021
(Saros 147)

May 9, 2032
(Saros 148)

April 9, 2043
(Saros 149)

March 9, 2054
(Saros 150)

February 5, 2065
(Saros 151)

January 6, 2076
(Saros 152)

December 6, 2086
(Saros 153)

November 4, 2097
(Saros 154)

October 5, 2108
(Saros 155)

September 5, 2119
(Saros 156)

August 4, 2130
(Saros 157)

July 3, 2141
(Saros 158)

June 3, 2152
(Saros 159)

April 1, 2174
(Saros 161)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

July 6, 1815
(Saros 143)

June 16, 1844
(Saros 144)

May 26, 1873
(Saros 145)

May 7, 1902
(Saros 146)

April 18, 1931
(Saros 147)

March 27, 1960
(Saros 148)

March 7, 1989
(Saros 149)

February 15, 2018
(Saros 150)

January 26, 2047
(Saros 151)

January 6, 2076
(Saros 152)

December 17, 2104
(Saros 153)

November 26, 2133
(Saros 154)

November 7, 2162
(Saros 155)

October 18, 2191
(Saros 156)

Notes

  1. ^ "January 6, 2076 Total Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Total Solar Eclipse of 2076 Jan 06". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  4. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  5. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 152". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

References