An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Wednesday, March 10 and Thursday, March 11, 2100, with a magnitude of 0.9338. 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 2.9 days before apogee (on March 13, 2100, at 21:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
The path of annularity will be visible from parts of northeastern Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Hawaii, California, Oregon, northwestern Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota in the United States. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Australia, Oceania, and North America.
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.
+March 10, 2100 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2100 March 10 at 19:26:43.1 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2100 March 10 at 20:33:05.4 UTC First Central Line 2100 March 10 at 20:36:01.0 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 2100 March 10 at 20:38:57.2 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 2100 March 10 at 21:52:49.6 UTC Greatest Duration 2100 March 10 at 22:21:55.8 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2100 March 10 at 22:28:11.0 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2100 March 10 at 22:31:51.0 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2100 March 10 at 22:48:12.9 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2100 March 10 at 23:03:03.0 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2100 March 11 at 00:17:11.1 UTC Last Central Line 2100 March 11 at 00:20:09.1 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2100 March 11 at 00:23:06.7 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2100 March 11 at 01:29:34.7 UTC
+March 10, 2100 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.93384 Eclipse Obscuration 0.87205 Gamma 0.30770 Sun Right Ascension 23h24m46.6s Sun Declination -03°47'43.4" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'06.4" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 23h24m14.3s Moon Declination -03°33'06.4" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'49.6" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'24.7" ΔT 123.8 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 February–March 2100 February 24Descending node (full moon) March 10Ascending node (new moon) Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 115 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 141
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2100 A penumbral lunar eclipse on February 24. An annular solar eclipse on March 10. A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 19. A total solar eclipse on September 4.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 29, 2103
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 27, 2093 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 23, 2107
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 5, 2091 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 17, 2109
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 10, 2089 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 8, 2111
Solar Saros 141 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 27, 2082 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 22, 2118
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 31, 2071 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 18, 2129
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 9, 2187
Solar eclipses of 2098–2101
Saros 141
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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