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Solar eclipse of April 21, 2088

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Solar eclipse of April 21, 2088
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.4135
Magnitude1.0474
Maximum eclipse
Duration238 s (3 min 58 s)
Coordinates36°00′N 15°06′E / 36°N 15.1°E / 36; 15.1
Max. width of band173 km (107 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse10:31:49
References
Saros130 (56 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)9706

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, April 21, 2088,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0474. 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. Occurring about 1.8 days before perigee (on April 23, 2088, at 5:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]

The path of totality will be visible from parts of Cape Verde, Mauritania, Western Sahara, northern Mali, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, southern Italy, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, southern Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and western China. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of eastern Canada, Greenland, Europe, West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Eclipse details

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Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[3]

April 21, 2088 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 07:56:26.3 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 08:55:25.1 UTC
First Central Line 2088 April 21 at 08:56:20.7 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 08:57:16.5 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 10:10:39.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2088 April 21 at 10:27:31.4 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2088 April 21 at 10:31:49.5 UTC
Greatest Duration 2088 April 21 at 10:35:01.4 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2088 April 21 at 10:42:59.9 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 10:52:42.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 12:06:12.1 UTC
Last Central Line 2088 April 21 at 12:07:09.8 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 12:08:07.4 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 13:07:03.4 UTC
April 21, 2088 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 1.04745
Eclipse Obscuration 1.09715
Gamma 0.41352
Sun Right Ascension 02h00m30.3s
Sun Declination +12°16'07.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'54.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8"
Moon Right Ascension 02h00m04.9s
Moon Declination +12°40'11.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter 16'25.1"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°00'15.3"
ΔT 112.6 s

Eclipse season

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This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of April–May 2088
April 21
Descending node (new moon)
May 5
Ascending node (full moon)
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 130
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 142
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Eclipses in 2088

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Metonic

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Tzolkinex

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Half-Saros

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Tritos

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Solar Saros 130

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Inex

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Triad

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Solar eclipses of 2087–2090

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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.[4]

The partial solar eclipse on June 1, 2087 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2087 to 2090
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
120 May 2, 2087

Partial
1.1139 125 October 26, 2087

Partial
−1.2882
130 April 21, 2088

Total
0.4135 135 October 14, 2088

Annular
−0.5349
140 April 10, 2089

Annular
−0.3319 145 October 4, 2089

Total
0.2167
150 March 31, 2090

Partial
−1.1028 155 September 23, 2090

Total
0.9157

Saros 130

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 20, 1096. It contains total eclipses from April 5, 1475 through July 18, 2232. There are no annular or hybrid eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on October 25, 2394. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of totality was produced by member 30 at 6 minutes, 41 seconds on July 11, 1619. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[5]

Series members 41–62 occur between 1801 and 2200:
41 42 43

November 9, 1817

November 20, 1835

November 30, 1853
44 45 46

December 12, 1871

December 22, 1889

January 3, 1908
47 48 49

January 14, 1926

January 25, 1944

February 5, 1962
50 51 52

February 16, 1980

February 26, 1998

March 9, 2016
53 54 55

March 20, 2034

March 30, 2052

April 11, 2070
56 57 58

April 21, 2088

May 3, 2106

May 14, 2124
59 60 61

May 25, 2142

June 4, 2160

June 16, 2178
62

June 26, 2196

Metonic series

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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.

22 eclipse events between July 3, 2065 and November 26, 2152
July 3–4 April 21–23 February 7–8 November 26–27 September 13–15
118 120 122 124 126

July 3, 2065

April 21, 2069

February 7, 2073

November 26, 2076

September 13, 2080
128 130 132 134 136

July 3, 2084

April 21, 2088

February 7, 2092

November 27, 2095

September 14, 2099
138 140 142 144 146

July 4, 2103

April 23, 2107

February 8, 2111

November 27, 2114

September 15, 2118
148 150 152 154 156

July 4, 2122

April 22, 2126

February 8, 2130

November 26, 2133

September 15, 2137
158 160 162 164

July 3, 2141

November 26, 2152

Tritos series

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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 1837 and 2200

April 5, 1837
(Saros 107)

March 5, 1848
(Saros 108)

February 3, 1859
(Saros 109)

December 2, 1880
(Saros 111)

August 31, 1913
(Saros 114)

July 31, 1924
(Saros 115)

June 30, 1935
(Saros 116)

May 30, 1946
(Saros 117)

April 30, 1957
(Saros 118)

March 28, 1968
(Saros 119)

February 26, 1979
(Saros 120)

January 26, 1990
(Saros 121)

December 25, 2000
(Saros 122)

November 25, 2011
(Saros 123)

October 25, 2022
(Saros 124)

September 23, 2033
(Saros 125)

August 23, 2044
(Saros 126)

July 24, 2055
(Saros 127)

June 22, 2066
(Saros 128)

May 22, 2077
(Saros 129)

April 21, 2088
(Saros 130)

March 21, 2099
(Saros 131)

February 18, 2110
(Saros 132)

January 19, 2121
(Saros 133)

December 19, 2131
(Saros 134)

November 17, 2142
(Saros 135)

October 17, 2153
(Saros 136)

September 16, 2164
(Saros 137)

August 16, 2175
(Saros 138)

July 16, 2186
(Saros 139)

June 15, 2197
(Saros 140)

Inex series

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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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

October 20, 1827
(Saros 121)

September 29, 1856
(Saros 122)

September 8, 1885
(Saros 123)

August 21, 1914
(Saros 124)

August 1, 1943
(Saros 125)

July 10, 1972
(Saros 126)

June 21, 2001
(Saros 127)

June 1, 2030
(Saros 128)

May 11, 2059
(Saros 129)

April 21, 2088
(Saros 130)

April 2, 2117
(Saros 131)

March 12, 2146
(Saros 132)

February 21, 2175
(Saros 133)

Notes

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  1. ^ "April 21, 2088 Total Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Total Solar Eclipse of 2088 Apr 21". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 130". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

References

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