Solar eclipse of June 23, 2047

Solar eclipse of June 23, 2047
Solar eclipse of June 23, 2047
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.3766
Magnitude	0.3129
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	65°48′N 178°00′W / 65.8°N 178°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	10:52:31
References
Saros	118 (70 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9612

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Sunday, June 23, 2047, with a magnitude of 0.3129. 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 second of four partial solar eclipses in 2047, with the others occurring on January 26, July 22, and December 16.

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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 118[edit]

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 118, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 24, 803 AD. It contains total eclipses from August 19, 947 AD through October 25, 1650; hybrid eclipses on November 4, 1668 and November 15, 1686; and annular eclipses from November 27, 1704 through April 30, 1957. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on July 15, 2083. 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 totality was produced by member 34 at 6 minutes, 59 seconds on May 16, 1398, and the longest duration of annularity was produced by member 59 at 1 minutes, 58 seconds on February 23, 1849. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.^[2]

Series members 57–72 occur between 1801 and 2083:
57	58	59
February 1, 1813	February 12, 1831	February 23, 1849
60	61	62
March 6, 1867	March 16, 1885	March 29, 1903
63	64	65
April 8, 1921	April 19, 1939	April 30, 1957
66	67	68
May 11, 1975	May 21, 1993	June 1, 2011
69	70	71
June 12, 2029	June 23, 2047	July 3, 2065
72
July 15, 2083