A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, September 3, 2081, with a magnitude of 1.072. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 5 hours before perigee (on September 3, 2081, at 14:05 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.
The path of totality will be visible from parts of Guernsey, Jersey, France, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, far western Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, eastern Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Maldives, and southern Indonesia. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Greenland, Europe, North Africa, Northeast Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Major cities Paris Basel Zurich Innsbruck Ljubljana Zagreb Istanbul Ankara Baghdad Basra Kuwait City Manama Doha Abu Dhabi Male Mapped using timeanddate. 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.
+September 3, 2081 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2081 September 03 at 06:34:05.6 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2081 September 03 at 07:29:27.5 UTC First Central Line 2081 September 03 at 07:30:59.4 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 2081 September 03 at 07:32:31.4 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 2081 September 03 at 08:34:42.2 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2081 September 03 at 08:49:03.4 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2081 September 03 at 09:04:04.6 UTC Greatest Duration 2081 September 03 at 09:04:30.1 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2081 September 03 at 09:07:30.5 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2081 September 03 at 09:40:43.5 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2081 September 03 at 10:42:41.1 UTC Last Central Line 2081 September 03 at 10:44:13.1 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2081 September 03 at 10:45:45.0 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2081 September 03 at 11:41:02.7 UTC
+September 3, 2081 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 1.07198 Eclipse Obscuration 1.14914 Gamma 0.33785 Sun Right Ascension 10h52m00.4s Sun Declination +07°13'15.0" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'51.2" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 10h52m39.6s Moon Declination +07°31'30.8" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'43.4" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'22.4" ΔT 106.8 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 September 2081 September 3Descending node (new moon) September 18Ascending node (full moon) Total solar eclipseSolar Saros 136 Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 148
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2081 An annular solar eclipse on March 10. A partial lunar eclipse on March 25. A total solar eclipse on September 3. A penumbral lunar eclipse on September 18.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 22, 2085
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 24, 2074 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2088
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of August 28, 2072 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 8, 2090
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 4, 2070 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 3, 2092
Solar Saros 136 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 24, 2063 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 14, 2099
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 22, 2052 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 15, 2110
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 5, 2168
Solar eclipses of 2080–2083
Saros 136
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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