Solar eclipse of December 27, 2065

Solar eclipse of December 27, 2065
Solar eclipse of December 27, 2065
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	−1.0688
Magnitude	0.8769
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	65.4°S 149.2°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	8:39:56
References
Saros	123 (56 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9655

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, December 27, 2065, with a magnitude of 0.8769. 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

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of December 22, 2056
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of January 2, 2075

Tritos

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 27, 2055
Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 26, 2076

Solar Saros 123

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047
Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 7, 2084

Inex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 2037
Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 7, 2094

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979
Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 28, 2152

Solar eclipses of 2065–2069

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2065 to 2069
Descending node		Ascending node
118	July 3, 2065 Partial	123	December 27, 2065 Partial
128	June 22, 2066 Annular	133	December 17, 2066 Total
138	June 11, 2067 Annular	143	December 6, 2067 Hybrid
148	May 31, 2068 Total	153	November 24, 2068 Partial
158	May 20, 2069 Partial

Saros 123

It is a part of Saros cycle 123, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on April 29, 1074. It contains annular eclipses from July 2, 1182 through April 19, 1651, hybrid eclipses from April 30, 1669 through May 22, 1705, and total eclipses from June 3, 1723 through October 23, 1957. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 31, 2318. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 27 seconds on July 27, 1813.

Series members 47–63 occur between 1900 and 2200:
47	48	49
September 21, 1903	October 1, 1921	October 12, 1939
50	51	52
October 23, 1957	November 3, 1975	November 13, 1993
53	54	55
November 25, 2011	December 5, 2029	December 16, 2047
56	57	58
December 27, 2065	January 7, 2084	January 19, 2102
59	60	61
January 30, 2120	February 9, 2138	February 21, 2156
62	63
March 3, 2174	March 13, 2192

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
- Besselian elements

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[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.