A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Saturday, January 5 and Sunday, January 6, 2019, with a magnitude of 0.7145. 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.
The eclipse was visible in Northeast Asia and southwestern Alaska.
Visibility
The maximal phase (71%) of the partial eclipse was recorded in Sakha Republic (Russia).
The eclipse was observed in Japan, the Russian Far East, North and South Korea, eastern China, eastern Mongolia and northwest Alaska.
Eclipse timing Places experiencing partial eclipse Solar Eclipse of January 6, 2019(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Taipei 08:00:22 08:29:51 09:01:13 1:01 1.46% Suzhou 07:41:41 08:31:58 09:27:36 1:46 8.91% Shanghai 07:41:29 08:32:59 09:30:04 1:49 9.40% Beijing 07:36:15 (sunrise) 08:34:32 09:41:16 2:05 19.72% Pyongyang 08:35:03 09:44:31 11:02:35 2:28 25.70% Seoul 08:35:39 09:45:00 11:03:00 2:27 24.18% Ulaanbaatar 08:41:18 (sunrise) 08:45:12 09:42:10 1:01 24.79% Daegu 08:36:43 09:46:02 11:04:02 2:27 22.47% Chita 09:33:15 (sunrise) 09:46:36 11:00:59 1:28 36.91% Kobe 08:40:25 09:56:36 11:21:45 2:41 25.39% Vladivostok 09:38:25 10:57:08 12:24:32 2:46 36.89% Osaka 08:40:38 09:57:13 11:22:43 2:42 25.60% Kyoto 08:40:41 09:57:53 11:24:01 2:43 26.33% Nagoya 08:41:29 10:00:09 11:27:39 2:46 27.34% Yokohama 08:43:45 10:05:39 11:35:54 2:52 29.47% Tokyo 08:43:49 10:06:01 11:36:33 2:53 29.93% Komsomolsk-on-Amur 09:47:40 11:11:37 12:41:58 2:54 49.79% Sapporo 08:46:32 10:13:29 11:47:24 3:01 42.26% Yakutsk 09:40:20 (sunrise) 10:14:19 11:36:32 1:56 56.31% Irkutsk 09:11:23 (sunrise) 09:15:51 09:48:10 0:37 16.72% Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 10:50:26 12:18:29 13:52:13 3:02 48.01% Magadan 11:11:00 12:36:58 14:04:05 2:53 60.25% Srednekolymsk 11:44:50 (sunrise) 12:41:38 13:56:59 (sunset) 2:12 62.05% Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 12:16:57 13:48:19 15:18:28 3:02 55.83% Anadyr 12:44:32 14:05:43 14:25:56 (sunset) 1:41 57.55% Wake Island 13:13:25 14:09:34 15:02:41 1:49 4.43% Verkhoyansk 12:09:39 (sunrise) 12:25:13 12:43:10 0:34 9.80% Adak 15:01:49 16:25:35 17:42:21 2:41 43.95% Unalaska 16:16:45 17:33:24 18:00:27 (sunset) 1:44 39.59% Midway Atoll 14:44:32 15:42:09 16:34:22 1:50 7.60%References:
Gallery
Eclipse details 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.
+January 6, 2019 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2019 January 05 at 23:35:18.0 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2019 January 06 at 01:29:20.4 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2019 January 06 at 01:42:37.7 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2019 January 06 at 01:44:50.7 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2019 January 06 at 03:49:59.7 UTC
+January 6, 2019 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.71455 Eclipse Obscuration 0.62003 Gamma 1.14174 Sun Right Ascension 19h06m57.4s Sun Declination -22°32'36.6" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'15.9" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 19h06m53.0s Moon Declination -21°30'36.4" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'50.4" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'27.6" ΔT 69.4 s
Eclipse season
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 January 2019 January 6Descending node (new moon) January 21Ascending node (full moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 122 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 134
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2019 A partial solar eclipse on January 6. A total lunar eclipse on January 21. A total solar eclipse on July 2. A partial lunar eclipse on July 16. An annular solar eclipse on December 26.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 25, 2022
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 25, 2011 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 17, 2026
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of December 31, 2009 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of January 12, 2028
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 7, 2008 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 5, 2029
Solar Saros 122 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 25, 2000 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 2037
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 7, 1932 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 6, 2105
Solar eclipses of 2018–2021
Saros 122
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
Notes
References
External links http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2019Jan06P.GIF