Solar eclipse of October 3, 2043

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Saturday, October 3, 2043, with a magnitude of 0.9497. 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 4.8 days before apogee (on October 7, 2043, at 23:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.

It will be unusual in that while it is an annular solar eclipse, it is not a central solar eclipse. A non-central eclipse is one where the center-line of annularity does not intersect the surface of the Earth (when the gamma is between 0.9972 and 1.0260). Instead, the center line passes just above the Earth's surface. This rare type occurs when annularity is only visible at sunset or sunrise in a polar region.

While the path of annularity will be not visible from any land areas, a partial solar eclipse will be visible for parts of Madagascar, Antarctica, and southwestern Australia. This will be the first of 56 umbral eclipses in Solar Saros 154.

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Eclipse timing Places experiencing partial eclipse Solar Eclipse of October 3, 2043(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Addu City 05:54:44 06:16:56 06:39:59 0:47 1.84% Diego Garcia 06:54:14 (sunrise) 07:24:34 08:07:43 1:13 12.22% Cocos (Keeling) Islands Bantam 07:27:37 08:06:57 08:49:03 1:21 6.22% Port Mathurin 05:26:25 (sunrise) 05:42:47 06:41:44 1:15 39.82% Port Louis 05:49:57 (sunrise) 05:52:32 06:42:05 0:52 39.89% Saint-Pierre 05:57:38 (sunrise) 05:59:56 06:44:36 0:47 39.12% Saint-Denis 05:57:53 (sunrise) 06:00:10 06:43:34 0:46 37.59% Saint-Paul 05:58:34 (sunrise) 06:00:51 06:43:51 0:45 37.48% Île Amsterdam 06:11:09 07:18:33 08:33:09 2:22 62.51% Carnarvon 09:40:48 10:19:00 10:59:03 1:18 3.50% Toamasina 05:22:57 (sunrise) 05:25:12 05:37:40 0:15 7.51% Geraldton 09:44:33 10:29:52 11:17:30 1:33 5.88% Île de la Possession 07:01:02 (sunrise) 07:30:34 08:37:50 1:37 83.65% Antananarivo 05:30:13 (sunrise) 05:32:29 05:39:33 0:09 3.39% Fianarantsoa 05:31:08 (sunrise) 05:33:25 05:45:00 0:14 7.25% Antsirabe 05:31:53 (sunrise) 05:34:09 05:41:39 0:10 3.77% Perth 09:50:19 10:39:25 11:30:57 1:41 7.44% Port-aux-Français 06:31:55 07:40:00 08:54:01 2:22 78.44% Mandurah 09:50:11 10:40:40 11:33:41 1:44 8.19% Albany 09:59:01 10:49:46 11:42:42 1:44 8.05% Esperance 10:15:54 10:52:44 11:30:35 1:15 2.66% Marion Island 05:56:13 (sunrise) 05:59:20 06:36:18 0:40 44.73% Mawson Station 07:08:25 08:15:40 09:26:08 2:18 84.27% Davis Station 09:13:05 10:22:40 11:35:05 2:22 77.21% Casey Station 10:26:40 11:38:28 12:51:32 2:25 53.45% Concordia Station 10:45:09 11:53:31 13:01:54 2:17 54.01% Dumont d'Urville Station 12:57:20 14:02:18 15:06:15 2:09 31.82% McMurdo Station 16:07:27 17:10:11 18:11:46 2:04 43.53% Zucchelli Station 16:10:33 17:12:34 18:13:14 2:03 37.58% Macquarie Island 13:55:16 14:20:50 14:45:53 0:51 1.27%References:

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.

+October 3, 2043 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2043 October 3 at 00:44:16.8 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2043 October 3 at 02:51:37.4 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2043 October 3 at 03:01:48.9 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2043 October 3 at 03:11:24.2 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2043 October 3 at 03:13:23.8 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2043 October 3 at 04:05:54.0 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2043 October 3 at 05:19:01.1 UTC

+October 3, 2043 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.94968 Eclipse Obscuration - Gamma −1.01019 Sun Right Ascension 12h36m02.9s Sun Declination -03°53'04.6" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'58.8" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 12h34m15.0s Moon Declination -04°41'56.9" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'05.1" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°55'21.7" ΔT 80.5 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–October 2043 September 19Ascending node (full moon) October 3Descending node (new moon) Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 128 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 154

Related eclipses Eclipses in 2043 A total lunar eclipse on March 25. A non-central total solar eclipse on April 9. A total lunar eclipse on September 19. A non-central annular solar eclipse on October 3.

Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 15, 2039 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2047

Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2036 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 14, 2050

Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 28, 2034 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 8, 2052

Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 3, 2032 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 2, 2054

Solar Saros 154 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 13, 2061

Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 23, 2014 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 2072

Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 2, 1956 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 4, 2130

Solar eclipses of 2040–2043

Saros 154

Metonic series

Tritos series

Inex series

References

External links http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2043Oct03A.GIF