Solar eclipse of October 24, 2079

63°24′S 160°36′W / 63.4°S 160.6°W / -63.4; -160.6Max. width of band495 km (308 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse18:11:21ReferencesSaros154 (10 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9686

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, October 24, 2079, with a magnitude of 0.9484. 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.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2079

• A partial lunar eclipse on April 16, 2079.
• A total solar eclipse on May 1, 2079.
• A total lunar eclipse on October 10, 2079.
• An annular solar eclipse on October 24, 2079.

Metonic

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 6, 2076
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 13, 2083

Tzolkinex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 2072
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 6, 2086

Half-Saros

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 19, 2070
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 30, 2088

Tritos

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 24, 2068
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 23, 2090

Solar Saros 154

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 13, 2061
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 4, 2097

Inex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 14, 2050
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 4, 2108

Triad

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 24, 1992
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 25, 2166

Solar eclipses of 2076–2079

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 2076 to 2079
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
119	June 1, 2076 Partial		124	November 26, 2076 Partial
129	May 22, 2077 Total		134	November 15, 2077 Annular
139	May 11, 2078 Total		144	November 4, 2078 Annular
149	May 1, 2079 Total		154	October 24, 2079 Annular

Saros 154

It is a part of Saros cycle 154, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 19, 1917. It contains annular eclipses from October 3, 2043, through March 27, 2332, hybrid eclipses from April 7, 2350, through April 29, 2386, and total eclipses from May 9, 2404, through May 29, 3035. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 25, 3179. The longest duration of totality will be 4 minutes, 50 seconds on July 25, 2530.

Series members 1-16 occur between 1901 and 2200:
1	2	3
July 19, 1917	July 30, 1935	August 9, 1953
4	5	6
August 20, 1971	August 31, 1989	September 11, 2007
7	8	9
September 21, 2025	October 3, 2043	October 13, 2061
10	11	12
October 24, 2079	November 4, 2097	November 16, 2115
13	14	15
November 26, 2133	December 8, 2151	December 18, 2169
16
December 29, 2187

Tritos series

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 1901 and 2100
March 6, 1905 (Saros 138)	February 3, 1916 (Saros 139)	January 3, 1927 (Saros 140)
December 2, 1937 (Saros 141)	November 1, 1948 (Saros 142)	October 2, 1959 (Saros 143)
August 31, 1970 (Saros 144)	July 31, 1981 (Saros 145)	June 30, 1992 (Saros 146)
May 31, 2003 (Saros 147)	April 29, 2014 (Saros 148)	March 29, 2025 (Saros 149)
February 27, 2036 (Saros 150)	January 26, 2047 (Saros 151)	December 26, 2057 (Saros 152)
November 24, 2068 (Saros 153)	October 24, 2079 (Saros 154)	September 23, 2090 (Saros 155)

Metonic series

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.

21 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and June 1, 2087
May 31 – June 1	March 19–20	January 5–6	October 24–25	August 12–13
118	120	122	124	126
June 1, 2011	March 20, 2015	January 6, 2019	October 25, 2022	August 12, 2026
128	130	132	134	136
June 1, 2030	March 20, 2034	January 5, 2038	October 25, 2041	August 12, 2045
138	140	142	144	146
May 31, 2049	March 20, 2053	January 5, 2057	October 24, 2060	August 12, 2064
148	150	152	154	156
May 31, 2068	March 19, 2072	January 6, 2076	October 24, 2079	August 13, 2083
158	160	162	164	166
June 1, 2087			October 24, 2098

References

External links

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements