Solar eclipse of October 15, 2069

Future partial solar eclipse

71°36′S 5°30′W / 71.6°S 5.5°W / -71.6; -5.5Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse4:19:56ReferencesSaros125 (57 of 73)Catalog # (SE5000)9664

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, October 15, 2069, with a magnitude of 0.5298. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2069

A partial solar eclipse on April 21, 2069.
A total lunar eclipse on May 6, 2069.
A partial solar eclipse on May 20, 2069.
A partial solar eclipse on October 15, 2069.
A total lunar eclipse on October 30, 2069.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 27, 2065
Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 3, 2073

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 3, 2062
Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 26, 2076

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 9, 2060
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 21, 2078

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982
Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 16, 2156

Solar eclipses of 2069–2072

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]

120	April 21, 2069 Partial	125	October 15, 2069 Partial
130	April 11, 2070 Total	135	October 4, 2070 Annular
140	March 31, 2071 Annular	145	September 23, 2071 Total
150	March 19, 2072 Partial	155	September 12, 2072 Total

Saros 125

It is a part of Saros cycle 125, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on February 4, 1060. It contains total eclipses from June 13, 1276 through July 16, 1330, hybrid eclipses on July 26, 1348 and August 7, 1366, and annular eclipses from August 17, 1384 through August 22, 1979. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on April 9, 2358. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 11 seconds on June 25, 1294, and the longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 23 seconds on July 10, 1907.

Series members 48–64 occur between 1900 and 2200:
48	49	50
July 10, 1907	July 20, 1925	August 1, 1943
51	52	53
August 11, 1961	August 22, 1979	September 2, 1997
54	55	56
September 13, 2015	September 23, 2033	October 4, 2051
57	58	59
October 15, 2069	October 26, 2087	November 6, 2105
60	61	62
November 18, 2123	November 28, 2141	December 9, 2159
63	64
December 20, 2177	December 31, 2195

References

^ 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.

External links

Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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Saros series (list)	109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162
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Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)