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Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018

Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018

21st-century partial solar eclipse


A partial solar eclipse took place on February 15, 2018.[1][2][3] 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.

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The eclipse took place before sunset in the Southern Cone of South America.

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Eclipses of 2018

Solar eclipses descending node 2015-2018

Solar eclipses 2015–2018

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]

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Partial solar eclipses on July 13, 2018, and January 6, 2019, occur during the next semester series.

Saros 150

It is a part of Saros cycle 150, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 24, 1729. It contains annular eclipses from April 22, 2126 through June 22, 2829. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 29, 2991. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 58 seconds on December 19, 2522.

More information Series members 11-21 occur between 1901 and 2100: ...

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.

More information 21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029, July 10–12 ...
  1. Rao, Joe (February 14, 2018). "Partial Solar Eclipse Occurs Thursday at the Bottom of the World". Space.com.
  2. 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.

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