Solar eclipse of November 5, 2059

8°42′N 47°06′E / 8.7°N 47.1°E / 8.7; 47.1Max. width of band238 km (148 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse9:18:15ReferencesSaros134 (46 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9641

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, November 5, 2059,^[1] with a magnitude of 0.9417. 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. Occurring about 4.2 days after apogee (on November 1, 2059, at 4:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.^[2]

The path of annularity will be visible from parts of France, northeastern Spain, Andorra, southern Italy, northeastern Libya, Egypt, northeastern Sudan, Eritrea, southwestern Yemen, far eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, the southern Maldives, and western Indonesia. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for much of Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.^[3]

November 5, 2059 Solar Eclipse Times

Event	Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact	2059 November 05 at 06:23:16.3 UTC
First Umbral External Contact	2059 November 05 at 07:31:24.1 UTC
First Central Line	2059 November 05 at 07:34:09.8 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact	2059 November 05 at 07:36:56.4 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	2059 November 05 at 08:55:50.2 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	2059 November 05 at 09:13:00.8 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	2059 November 05 at 09:18:14.6 UTC
Greatest Duration	2059 November 05 at 09:33:13.5 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact	2059 November 05 at 10:59:49.0 UTC
Last Central Line	2059 November 05 at 11:02:33.1 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact	2059 November 05 at 11:05:16.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	2059 November 05 at 12:13:17.0 UTC

November 5, 2059 Solar Eclipse Parameters

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	0.94166
Eclipse Obscuration	0.88673
Gamma	0.44543
Sun Right Ascension	14h42m02.6s
Sun Declination	-15°43'28.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter	16'07.6"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.9"
Moon Right Ascension	14h42m42.7s
Moon Declination	-15°21'02.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter	14'58.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°54'58.7"
ΔT	90.3 s

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of November 2059

November 5 Descending node (new moon)	November 19 Ascending node (full moon)
Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 134	Partial lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 146

• A total solar eclipse on May 11.
• A partial lunar eclipse on May 27.
• An annular solar eclipse on November 5.
• A partial lunar eclipse on November 19.

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 2056
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 24, 2063

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 22, 2052
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 17, 2066

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 30, 2050
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 9, 2068

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 5, 2048
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 4, 2070

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 25, 2041
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 25, 2030
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2088

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 4, 1973
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 6, 2146

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.^[4]

The partial solar eclipse on June 21, 2058 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2058 to 2061
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
119	May 22, 2058 Partial	−1.3194		124	November 16, 2058 Partial	1.1224
129	May 11, 2059 Total	−0.508		134	November 5, 2059 Annular	0.4454
139	April 30, 2060 Total	0.2422		144	October 24, 2060 Annular	−0.2625
149	April 20, 2061 Total	0.9578		154	October 13, 2061 Annular	−0.9639

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554; hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843; and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. 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 11 at 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 52 at 10 minutes, 55 seconds on January 10, 2168. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.^[5]

Series members 32–53 occur between 1801 and 2200:
32	33	34
June 6, 1807	June 16, 1825	June 27, 1843
35	36	37
July 8, 1861	July 19, 1879	July 29, 1897
38	39	40
August 10, 1915	August 21, 1933	September 1, 1951
41	42	43
September 11, 1969	September 23, 1987	October 3, 2005
44	45	46
October 14, 2023	October 25, 2041	November 5, 2059
47	48	49
November 15, 2077	November 27, 2095	December 8, 2113
50	51	52
December 19, 2131	December 30, 2149	January 10, 2168
53
January 20, 2186

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

22 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and November 4, 2116
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	156
June 11, 2086	March 31, 2090	January 16, 2094	November 4, 2097	August 24, 2101
158	160	162	164
June 12, 2105			November 4, 2116

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 1801 and 2200
October 19, 1808 (Saros 111)	September 19, 1819 (Saros 112)	August 18, 1830 (Saros 113)	July 18, 1841 (Saros 114)	June 17, 1852 (Saros 115)
May 17, 1863 (Saros 116)	April 16, 1874 (Saros 117)	March 16, 1885 (Saros 118)	February 13, 1896 (Saros 119)	January 14, 1907 (Saros 120)
December 14, 1917 (Saros 121)	November 12, 1928 (Saros 122)	October 12, 1939 (Saros 123)	September 12, 1950 (Saros 124)	August 11, 1961 (Saros 125)
July 10, 1972 (Saros 126)	June 11, 1983 (Saros 127)	May 10, 1994 (Saros 128)	April 8, 2005 (Saros 129)	March 9, 2016 (Saros 130)
February 6, 2027 (Saros 131)	January 5, 2038 (Saros 132)	December 5, 2048 (Saros 133)	November 5, 2059 (Saros 134)	October 4, 2070 (Saros 135)
September 3, 2081 (Saros 136)	August 3, 2092 (Saros 137)	July 4, 2103 (Saros 138)	June 3, 2114 (Saros 139)	May 3, 2125 (Saros 140)
April 1, 2136 (Saros 141)	March 2, 2147 (Saros 142)	January 30, 2158 (Saros 143)	December 29, 2168 (Saros 144)	November 28, 2179 (Saros 145)
October 29, 2190 (Saros 146)

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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
April 14, 1828 (Saros 126)	March 25, 1857 (Saros 127)	March 5, 1886 (Saros 128)
February 14, 1915 (Saros 129)	January 25, 1944 (Saros 130)	January 4, 1973 (Saros 131)
December 14, 2001 (Saros 132)	November 25, 2030 (Saros 133)	November 5, 2059 (Saros 134)
October 14, 2088 (Saros 135)	September 26, 2117 (Saros 136)	September 6, 2146 (Saros 137)
August 16, 2175 (Saros 138)

• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2051/SE2059Nov05A.GIF