Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047

Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047
Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	−1.0661
Magnitude	0.8816
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	66°24′S 6°36′W / 66.4°S 6.6°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	23:50:12
References
Saros	123 (55 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9614

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, December 16, 2047, with a magnitude of 0.8816. 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.

This will be the last of four partial solar eclipses in 2047, with the others occurring on January 26, June 23, and July 22.

Images[edit]

Animated path

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses of 2047–2050[edit]

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]

Note: Partial lunar eclipses on January 26, 2047 and July 22, 2047 occur on the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse sets from 2047 to 2050
Descending node		Ascending node
118	June 23, 2047 Partial	123	December 16, 2047 Partial
128	June 11, 2048 Annular	133	December 5, 2048 Total
138	May 31, 2049 Annular	143	November 25, 2049 Hybrid
148	May 20, 2050 Hybrid	153	November 14, 2050 Partial

Saros 123[edit]

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 123, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on April 29, 1074. It contains annular eclipses from July 2, 1182 through April 19, 1651; hybrid eclipses from April 30, 1669 through May 22, 1705; and total eclipses from June 3, 1723 through October 23, 1957. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 31, 2318. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 19 at 8 minutes, 7 seconds on November 9, 1398, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 42 at 3 minutes, 27 seconds on July 27, 1813. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.^[2]

Series members 42–63 occur between 1801 and 2200:
42	43	44
July 27, 1813	August 7, 1831	August 18, 1849
45	46	47
August 29, 1867	September 8, 1885	September 21, 1903
48	49	50
October 1, 1921	October 12, 1939	October 23, 1957
51	52	53
November 3, 1975	November 13, 1993	November 25, 2011
54	55	56
December 5, 2029	December 16, 2047	December 27, 2065
57	58	59
January 7, 2084	January 19, 2102	January 30, 2120
60	61	62
February 9, 2138	February 21, 2156	March 3, 2174
63
March 13, 2192