Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096

A total solar eclipse will occur on May 23, 2096. 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. This will be the first eclipse of saros series 139 to exceed series 136 in length of totality. The length of totality for saros 139 is increasing, while that of Saros 136 is decreasing.

Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.1196
Magnitude1.0737
Maximum eclipse
Duration367 sec (6 m 7 s)
Coordinates27.3°N 153.4°E / 27.3; 153.4
Max. width of band241 km (150 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse1:37:14
References
Saros139 (34 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9724

Solar eclipses 2094–2098

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]

119June 13, 2094

Partial		 124December 7, 2094

Partial
129June 2, 2095

Total		 134November 27, 2095

Annular
139May 22, 2096

Total		 144November 15, 2096

Annular
149May 11, 2097

Total		 154November 4, 2097

Annular
  164October 24, 2098

Partial

Saros 139

It is a part of saros series 139, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 17, 1501. It contains hybrid eclipses on August 11, 1627 through to December 9, 1825 and total eclipses from December 21, 1843 through to March 26, 2601. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 3, 2763. Its eclipses are entabulated in three columns; each one in the same column, every third eclipse, is one exeligmos apart so cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the earth.

The solar eclipse of June 13, 2132 will be the longest total solar eclipse since July 11, 1991 at 6 minutes, 55.02 seconds.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 39 at 7 minutes, 29.22 seconds on July 16, 2186.[2] After that date each duration will decrease, until the series end. This date is the longest solar eclipse computed between 4000BC and 6000AD.[3] Saros series eclipses are during the Moon’s ascending node (a term related to our equator and polar-naming conventions).

Notes
  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.
  2. Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.
  3. Ten Millennium Catalog of Long Solar Eclipses, -3999 to +6000 (4000 BCE to 6000 CE) Fred Espenak.

References
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