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Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044

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Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.9613
Magnitude1.0364
Maximum eclipse
Duration124 s (2 min 4 s)
Coordinates64°18′N 120°24′W / 64.3°N 120.4°W / 64.3; -120.4
Max. width of band453 km (281 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse1:17:02
References
Saros126 (49 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)9606

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Monday, August 22 and Tuesday, August 23, 2044,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0364. 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 2.1 days after perigee (on August 21, 2044, at 0:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]

This will be the last of 41 umbral solar eclipses in Solar Saros 126.

Path

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Totality will be visible in the evening of August 22 across:[3]

A partial solar eclipse will be visible in Siberia in the morning of August 23, and throughout western Canada and United States until sunset on August 22.

The greatest duration of the total eclipse will be observed in the Northwest Territories, approximately 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Great Bear Lake.[4]

Images

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Animated path

Eclipse details

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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.[5]

August 23, 2044 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2044 August 22 at 23:10:51.7 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2044 August 23 at 00:27:10.1 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 2044 August 23 at 00:46:01.0 UTC
First Central Line 2044 August 23 at 00:49:11.6 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 2044 August 23 at 00:52:44.5 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2044 August 23 at 01:07:14.0 UTC
Greatest Duration 2044 August 23 at 01:16:35.8 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2044 August 23 at 01:17:01.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 2044 August 23 at 01:41:52.4 UTC
Last Central Line 2044 August 23 at 01:45:22.9 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 2044 August 23 at 01:48:31.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2044 August 23 at 03:23:35.9 UTC
August 23, 2044 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 1.03644
Eclipse Obscuration 1.07420
Gamma 0.96130
Sun Right Ascension 10h10m33.4s
Sun Declination +11°16'02.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'48.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7"
Moon Right Ascension 10h12m17.2s
Moon Declination +12°07'34.4"
Moon Semi-Diameter 16'19.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°59'55.1"
ΔT 81.0 s

Eclipse season

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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 August–September 2044
August 23
Descending node (new moon)
September 7
Ascending node (full moon)
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 126
Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 138
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Eclipses in 2044

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Metonic

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Tzolkinex

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Half-Saros

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Tritos

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Solar Saros 126

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Inex

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Triad

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Solar eclipses of 2044–2047

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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.[6]

The partial solar eclipses on June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2044 to 2047
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
121 February 28, 2044

Annular
−0.9954 126 August 23, 2044

Total
0.9613
131 February 16, 2045

Annular
−0.3125 136 August 12, 2045

Total
0.2116
141 February 5, 2046

Annular
0.3765 146 August 2, 2046

Total
−0.535
151 January 26, 2047

Partial
1.045 156 July 22, 2047

Partial
−1.3477

Saros 126

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810; hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864; and total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. 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 annularity was produced by member 11 at 6 minutes, 30 seconds on June 26, 1359, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 45 at 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[7]

Series members 36–57 occur between 1801 and 2200:
36 37 38

April 4, 1810

April 14, 1828

April 25, 1846
39 40 41

May 6, 1864

May 17, 1882

May 28, 1900
42 43 44

June 8, 1918

June 19, 1936

June 30, 1954
45 46 47

July 10, 1972

July 22, 1990

August 1, 2008
48 49 50

August 12, 2026

August 23, 2044

September 3, 2062
51 52 53

September 13, 2080

September 25, 2098

October 6, 2116
54 55 56

October 17, 2134

October 28, 2152

November 8, 2170
57

November 18, 2188

Metonic series

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

22 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and November 4, 2116
June 11–12 March 30–31 January 16 November 4–5 August 23–24
118 120 122 124 126

June 12, 2029

March 30, 2033

January 16, 2037

November 4, 2040

August 23, 2044
128 130 132 134 136

June 11, 2048

March 30, 2052

January 16, 2056

November 5, 2059

August 24, 2063
138 140 142 144 146

June 11, 2067

March 31, 2071

January 16, 2075

November 4, 2078

August 24, 2082
148 150 152 154 156

June 11, 2086

March 31, 2090

January 16, 2094

November 4, 2097

August 24, 2101
158 160 162 164

June 12, 2105

November 4, 2116

Tritos series

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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 1837 and 2200

April 5, 1837
(Saros 107)

March 5, 1848
(Saros 108)

February 3, 1859
(Saros 109)

December 2, 1880
(Saros 111)

August 31, 1913
(Saros 114)

July 31, 1924
(Saros 115)

June 30, 1935
(Saros 116)

May 30, 1946
(Saros 117)

April 30, 1957
(Saros 118)

March 28, 1968
(Saros 119)

February 26, 1979
(Saros 120)

January 26, 1990
(Saros 121)

December 25, 2000
(Saros 122)

November 25, 2011
(Saros 123)

October 25, 2022
(Saros 124)

September 23, 2033
(Saros 125)

August 23, 2044
(Saros 126)

July 24, 2055
(Saros 127)

June 22, 2066
(Saros 128)

May 22, 2077
(Saros 129)

April 21, 2088
(Saros 130)

March 21, 2099
(Saros 131)

February 18, 2110
(Saros 132)

January 19, 2121
(Saros 133)

December 19, 2131
(Saros 134)

November 17, 2142
(Saros 135)

October 17, 2153
(Saros 136)

September 16, 2164
(Saros 137)

August 16, 2175
(Saros 138)

July 16, 2186
(Saros 139)

June 15, 2197
(Saros 140)

Inex series

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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

February 1, 1813
(Saros 118)

January 11, 1842
(Saros 119)

December 22, 1870
(Saros 120)

December 3, 1899
(Saros 121)

November 12, 1928
(Saros 122)

October 23, 1957
(Saros 123)

October 3, 1986
(Saros 124)

September 13, 2015
(Saros 125)

August 23, 2044
(Saros 126)

August 3, 2073
(Saros 127)

July 15, 2102
(Saros 128)

June 25, 2131
(Saros 129)

June 4, 2160
(Saros 130)

May 15, 2189
(Saros 131)

References

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  1. ^ "August 22–23, 2044 Total Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Total Solar Eclipse on August 22–23, 2044: Path Map and Times". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  4. ^ "Greatest Duration of Total Solar Eclipse of 2044 Aug 23". NASA Eclipse Website. NASA. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Total Solar Eclipse of 2044 Aug 23". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 126". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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