An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Saturday, February 6, 2027,[1] with a magnitude of 0.9281. 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. Occurring about 3.2 days after apogee (on February 3, 2027, at 13:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.[2]
The path of annularity will first pass through Chile (including the city of Castro) and Argentina (including the city of Viedma), then scraping the east coast of Uruguay (including the city of Punta del Este) and Brazil. The eclipse will then pass across the South Atlantic Ocean, terminating on the West African coast, where it will pass over the southeastern Ivory Coast (including the city of Abidjan), southern Ghana (including the capital Accra), southern Togo (including the capital Lomé), southern Benin (including Cotonou and the capital Porto Novo), and southwestern Nigeria (including Lagos). A partial eclipse will be visible in much of South America, parts of Antarctica, and much of the western half of Africa.
Animated path
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]
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2027 February 06 at 12:58:47.0 UTC | |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2027 February 06 at 14:05:05.6 UTC | |
| First Central Line | 2027 February 06 at 14:08:16.3 UTC | |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2027 February 06 at 14:11:27.4 UTC | |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 2027 February 06 at 15:24:40.4 UTC | |
| Greatest Duration | 2027 February 06 at 15:43:00.4 UTC | |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2027 February 06 at 15:45:38.2 UTC | |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2027 February 06 at 15:57:16.2 UTC | |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2027 February 06 at 16:00:47.7 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 2027 February 06 at 16:37:18.3 UTC | |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2027 February 06 at 17:50:19.1 UTC | |
| Last Central Line | 2027 February 06 at 17:53:28.3 UTC | |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2027 February 06 at 17:56:36.8 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2027 February 06 at 19:02:50.3 UTC |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.92811 | |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.86139 | |
| Gamma | −0.29515 | |
| Sun Right Ascension | 21h20m17.6s | |
| Sun Declination | -15°32'54.5" | |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'13.1" | |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" | |
| Moon Right Ascension | 21h20m44.2s | |
| Moon Declination | -15°47'36.0" | |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 14'50.2" | |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°54'27.0" | |
| ΔT | 72.6 s |
See also: Eclipse cycle. 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.