Solar eclipse of March 10, 2081

An annular solar eclipse will occur on March 10, 2081. 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.

Solar eclipse of March 10, 2081
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma-0.3653
Magnitude0.9304
Maximum eclipse
Duration456 sec (7 m 36 s)
Coordinates22.4°S 36.7°W / -22.4; -36.7
Max. width of band277 km (172 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse15:23:31
References
Saros131 (54 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9689

Solar eclipses 2080–2083

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.[1]

121March 21, 2080

Partial		 126September 13, 2080

Partial
131March 10, 2081

Annular		 136September 3, 2081

Total
141February 27, 2082

Annular		 146August 24, 2082

Total
151February 16, 2083

Partial		 156August 13, 2083

Partial

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.

References
  1. 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.
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