Solar eclipse of June 21, 2020

Solar eclipse of June 21, 2020
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.1209
Magnitude	0.994
Maximum eclipse
Duration	38 sec (0 m 38 s)
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band	21 km (13 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	6:41:15
References
Saros	137 (36 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9553

An annular solar eclipse will occur on June 21, 2020. 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. The most obsurcied area is situated near Joshimath, Auli and Chamoli in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India.

Images

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Animated path

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 2018-2021

Each member 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.

Note: Partial solar eclipses on February 15, 2018, and August 11, 2018, occur during the previous semester series.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2018–2021
Ascending node		Descending node
117	July 13, 2018 Partial	122	January 6, 2019 Partial
127	July 2, 2019 Total	132	December 26, 2019 Annular
137	June 21, 2020 Annular	142	December 14, 2020 Total
147	June 10, 2021 Annular	152	December 4, 2021 Total

Inex series

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.

Inex series members between 1901 and 2100:

September 9, 1904 (Saros 133)	August 21, 1933 (Saros 134)	July 31, 1962 (Saros 135)
July 11, 1991 (Saros 136)	June 21, 2020 (Saros 137)	May 31, 2049 (Saros 138)
May 11, 2078 (Saros 139)

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).

This series has 21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058.

June 21	April 8-9	January 26	November 13-14	September 1-2
117	119	121	123	125
June 21, 1982	April 9, 1986	January 26, 1990	November 13, 1993	September 2, 1997
127	129	131	133	135
June 21, 2001	April 8, 2005	January 26, 2009	November 13, 2012	150px September 1, 2016
137	139	141	143	145
June 21, 2020	April 8, 2024	January 26, 2028	November 14, 2031	September 2, 2035
147	149	151	153	155
June 21, 2039	April 9, 2043	150px January 26, 2047	November 14, 2050	September 2, 2054
157
June 21, 2058