A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, April 21, 2088, with a magnitude of 1.0474. 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 1.8 days before perigee (on April 23, 2088, at 5:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.
The path of totality will be visible from parts of Cape Verde, Mauritania, Western Sahara, northern Mali, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, southern Italy, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, southern Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and western China. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of eastern Canada, Greenland, Europe, West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Note that the central line of this total solar eclipse follows a path extremely similar to that of the annular eclipse that occurred 112 years earlier on April 29, 1976.
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.
+April 21, 2088 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 07:56:26.3 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 08:55:25.1 UTC First Central Line 2088 April 21 at 08:56:20.7 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 08:57:16.5 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 10:10:39.3 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2088 April 21 at 10:27:31.4 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2088 April 21 at 10:31:49.5 UTC Greatest Duration 2088 April 21 at 10:35:01.4 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2088 April 21 at 10:42:59.9 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 10:52:42.8 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2088 April 21 at 12:06:12.1 UTC Last Central Line 2088 April 21 at 12:07:09.8 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 12:08:07.4 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2088 April 21 at 13:07:03.4 UTC
+April 21, 2088 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 1.04745 Eclipse Obscuration 1.09715 Gamma 0.41352 Sun Right Ascension 02h00m30.3s Sun Declination +12°16'07.2" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'54.9" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 02h00m04.9s Moon Declination +12°40'11.3" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'25.1" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°00'15.3" ΔT 112.6 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 April–May 2088 April 21Descending node (new moon) May 5Ascending node (full moon) Total solar eclipseSolar Saros 130 Partial lunar eclipseLunar Saros 142
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2088 A total solar eclipse on April 21. A partial lunar eclipse on May 5. An annular solar eclipse on October 14. A partial lunar eclipse on October 30.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 3, 2084 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 7, 2092
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 10, 2081 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 2, 2095
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 16, 2079 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 26, 2097
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 22, 2077 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 21, 2099
Solar Saros 130 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 11, 2070 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 3, 2106
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 2059 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 2, 2117
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 21, 2175
Solar eclipses of 2087–2090
Saros 130
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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