Solar eclipse of June 11, 2048 explained

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, June 11, 2048,[1] with a magnitude of 0.9441. 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 15.5 hours after apogee (on June 10, 2048, at 21:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.[2]

The path of annularity will be visible from parts of Colorado, Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle, Nebraska, northwestern Missouri, Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, northwestern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the United States, eastern Canada, southern Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, western Russia, eastern Ukraine, southwestern Kazakhstan, southern Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, southwestern Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and northern Pakistan. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

Images


Animated path

Eclipse details

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]

June 11, 2048 Solar Eclipse Times! Event! Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2048 June 11 at 10:09:44.8 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2048 June 11 at 11:25:33.1 UTC
First Central Line2048 June 11 at 11:28:35.8 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2048 June 11 at 11:31:41.1 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2048 June 11 at 12:51:11.2 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2048 June 11 at 12:56:14.7 UTC
Greatest Duration2048 June 11 at 12:57:27.0 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2048 June 11 at 12:58:52.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2048 June 11 at 14:26:06.6 UTC
Last Central Line2048 June 11 at 14:29:11.5 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2048 June 11 at 14:32:13.6 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2048 June 11 at 15:48:00.9 UTC
June 11, 2048 Solar Eclipse Parameters! Parameter! Value
Eclipse Magnitude0.94415
Eclipse Obscuration0.89141
Gamma0.64685
Sun Right Ascension05h22m03.9s
Sun Declination+23°08'47.0"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'45.1"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension05h22m09.1s
Moon Declination+23°43'34.6"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'42.3"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°53'58.0"
ΔT83.2 s

Eclipse season

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.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2048

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 128

Inex

Triad

Inex series

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: June 11, 2048 Annular Solar Eclipse. timeanddate. 15 August 2024.
  2. Web site: Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England. timeanddate. 15 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2048 Jun 11. EclipseWise.com. 15 August 2024.