Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044

Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044
Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.9954
Magnitude	0.96
Maximum eclipse
Duration	147 s (2 min 27 s)
Coordinates	62°12′S 25°36′W / 62.2°S 25.6°W
Max. width of band	- km
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:24:40
References
Saros	121 (62 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9605

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, February 28, 2044, with a magnitude of 0.96. 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.

This is the last of 55 umbral eclipses of Solar Saros 121. The 1st was in 1070 and the 55th will be in 2044. The total duration is 974 years.

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Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 2044–2047

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 2044 to 2047
Ascending node		Descending node
121	February 28, 2044 Annular	126	August 23, 2044 Total
131	February 16, 2045 Annular	136	August 12, 2045 Total
141	February 5, 2046 Annular	146	August 2, 2046 Total
151	January 26, 2047 Partial	156	July 22, 2047 Partial
Partial solar eclipses on June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur on the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 121

Solar saros 121, repeating every about 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, contains 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on April 25, 944. It contains total eclipses from July 10, 1070, to October 9, 1809. It contains hybrid eclipses on October 20, 1827, and October 30, 1845. It contains annular eclipses from November 11, 1863, to February 28, 2044. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 7, 2206. The longest total eclipse occurred on June 21, 1629, with greatest duration of totality at 6 minutes and 20 seconds. The longest annular eclipse will occur on February 28, 2044, with greatest duration of annularity at 2 minutes and 27 seconds.^[2]

Series members 49–65 occur between 1801 and 2100:
49	50	51
October 9, 1809	October 20, 1827	October 30, 1845
52	53	54
November 11, 1863	November 21, 1881	December 3, 1899
55	56	57
December 14, 1917	December 25, 1935	January 5, 1954
58	59	60
January 16, 1972	January 26, 1990	February 7, 2008
61	62	63
February 17, 2026	February 28, 2044	March 11, 2062
64	65
March 21, 2080	April 1, 2098