An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, June 22, 2066, with a magnitude of 0.9435. 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 8 hours after apogee (on June 22, 2066, at 11:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
The path of annularity will be visible from parts of the Russian Far East, Alaska, northern Canada, and the Azores. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of northern Russia, Canada, Greenland, the United States, the Caribbean, Northern Europe, and Western Europe.
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.
+June 22, 2066 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2066 June 22 at 16:41:43.1 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2066 June 22 at 18:02:00.7 UTC First Central Line 2066 June 22 at 18:05:23.1 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 2066 June 22 at 18:08:50.3 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2066 June 22 at 19:15:57.6 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2066 June 22 at 19:17:05.8 UTC Greatest Duration 2066 June 22 at 19:22:58.8 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2066 June 22 at 19:25:47.7 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2066 June 22 at 20:42:52.0 UTC Last Central Line 2066 June 22 at 20:46:18.8 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2066 June 22 at 20:49:40.9 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2066 June 22 at 22:09:56.0 UTC
+June 22, 2066 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.94346 Eclipse Obscuration 0.89012 Gamma 0.73297 Sun Right Ascension 06h07m28.7s Sun Declination +23°25'11.2" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'44.2" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 06h07m48.1s Moon Declination +24°04'22.4" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'42.0" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°53'57.0" ΔT 94.9 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.
+ Eclipse season of June–July 2066 June 22Descending node (new moon) July 7Ascending node (full moon) Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 128 Partial lunar eclipseLunar Saros 140
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2066 A total lunar eclipse on January 11. An annular solar eclipse on June 22. A partial lunar eclipse on July 7. A total solar eclipse on December 17. A penumbral lunar eclipse on December 31.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 3, 2062 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 11, 2070
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 2059 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 3, 2073
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of June 17, 2057 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of June 28, 2075
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 24, 2055 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 22, 2077
Solar Saros 128 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 11, 2048 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 3, 2084
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 13, 2037 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 2, 2095
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 22, 1979 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 23, 2153
Solar eclipses of 2065–2069
Saros 128
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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