Solar_eclipse_of_January_16,_2056
Solar eclipse of January 16, 2056
Future annular solar eclipse
An annular solar eclipse will occur on January 16, 2056. 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.
| Solar eclipse of January 16, 2056 | |
|---|---|
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.4199 |
| Magnitude | 0.9759 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 172 s (2 min 52 s) |
| Coordinates | 3.9°N 153.5°W / 3.9; -153.5 |
| Max. width of band | 95 km (59 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 22:16:45 |
| References | |
| Saros | 132 (48 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9632 |
Solar eclipses 2054–2058
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 2054 to 2058 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 117 | August 3, 2054 Partial |
122 | January 27, 2055 Partial | |
| 127 | July 24, 2055 Total |
132 | January 16, 2056 Annular | |
| 137 | July 12, 2056 Annular |
142 | January 5, 2057 Total | |
| 147 | July 1, 2057 Annular |
152 | December 26, 2057 Total | |
| 157 | June 21, 2058 Partial | |||
Saros 132
This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146, hybrid on March 22, 2164 and April 3, 2182 and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. The longest duration of annularity was 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and totality will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.
| Series members 28–50 occur between 1690 and 2100: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 28 | 29 | 30 |
 June 11, 1695 |
 June 22, 1713 |
 July 4, 1731 |
| 31 | 32 | 33 |
 July 14, 1749 |
 July 25, 1767 |
 August 5, 1785 |
| 34 | 35 | 36 |
 August 17, 1803 |
 August 27, 1821 |
 September 7, 1839 |
| 37 | 38 | 39 |
 September 18, 1857 |
 September 29, 1875 |
 October 9, 1893 |
| 40 | 41 | 42 |
 October 22, 1911 |
 November 1, 1929 |
 November 12, 1947 |
| 43 | 44 | 45 |
 November 23, 1965 |
 December 4, 1983 |
 December 14, 2001 |
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
 December 26, 2019 |
 January 5, 2038 |
January 16, 2056 |
| 49 | 50 | |
 January 27, 2074 |
 February 7, 2092 | |
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 29, 1903 (Saros 118) |
 February 25, 1914 (Saros 119) |
 January 24, 1925 (Saros 120) | |
 December 25, 1935 (Saros 121) |
 November 23, 1946 (Saros 122) |
 October 23, 1957 (Saros 123) | |
 September 22, 1968 (Saros 124) |
 August 22, 1979 (Saros 125) |
 July 22, 1990 (Saros 126) | |
 June 21, 2001 (Saros 127) |
 May 20, 2012 (Saros 128) |
 April 20, 2023 (Saros 129) | |
 March 20, 2034 (Saros 130) |
 February 16, 2045 (Saros 131) |
January 16, 2056 (Saros 132) | |
 December 17, 2066 (Saros 133) |
 November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) |
 October 14, 2088 (Saros 135) | |
 September 14, 2099 (Saros 136) |
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Metonic cycle
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).
| 21 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and June 12, 2105 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 11–12 | March 30–31 | January 16 | November 4–5 | August 23–24 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
 June 12, 2029 |
 March 30, 2033 |
 January 16, 2037 |
 November 4, 2040 |
 August 23, 2044 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
 June 11, 2048 |
 March 30, 2052 |
January 16, 2056 |
 November 5, 2059 |
 August 24, 2063 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
 June 11, 2067 |
 March 31, 2071 |
 January 16, 2075 |
 November 4, 2078 |
 August 24, 2082 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | |
 June 11, 2086 |
 March 31, 2090 |
 January 16, 2094 |
 November 4, 2097 | |
- 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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