A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Tuesday, September 1 and Wednesday, September 2, 2054, with a magnitude of 0.9793. 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 partial solar eclipse will be visible for parts of Northeast Asia, Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States. This is the last of the first set of partial eclipses in Solar Saros 155.
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 2, 2054 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2054 September 01 at 23:12:21.2 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2054 September 02 at 00:38:15.2 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2054 September 02 at 01:09:33.7 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2054 September 02 at 01:19:46.2 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2054 September 02 at 03:07:02.1 UTC
+September 2, 2054 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.97932 Eclipse Obscuration 0.98275 Gamma 1.02148 Sun Right Ascension 10h45m28.2s Sun Declination +07°52'58.6" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'50.9" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 10h46m40.4s Moon Declination +08°52'49.8" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'42.0" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'17.5" ΔT 86.9 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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
+ Eclipse season of August–September 2054 August 3Ascending node (new moon) August 18Descending node (full moon) September 2Ascending node (new moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 117 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 129 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 155
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2054 A total lunar eclipse on February 22. A partial solar eclipse on March 9. A partial solar eclipse on August 3. A total lunar eclipse on August 18. A partial solar eclipse on September 2.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 14, 2050 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 21, 2058
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2047 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 13, 2061
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of August 27, 2045 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 7, 2063
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 3, 2043 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 2, 2065
Solar Saros 155 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2036 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 2072
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 13, 2083
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 2, 1967 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 3, 2141
Solar eclipses of 2051–2054
Saros 155
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
References
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