Solar eclipse of February 5, 2065


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A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, February 5, 2065,[1] with a magnitude of 0.9123. 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.

Solar eclipse of February 5, 2065

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Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma1.0336
Magnitude0.9123
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates62°12′N 21°54′W / 62.2°N 21.9°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse9:52:26
References
Saros151 (17 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)9652

This will be the first of four partial solar eclipses in 2065, with the others occurring on July 3, August 2, and December 27.

The partial solar eclipse will be visible for parts of North Africa, West Africa, Europe, and Central Asia.

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.[2]

February 5, 2065 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2065 February 05 at 07:40:45.3 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2065 February 05 at 09:52:25.5 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2065 February 05 at 10:03:58.8 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2065 February 05 at 10:42:35.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2065 February 05 at 12:03:51.2 UTC
February 5, 2065 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.91233
Eclipse Obscuration 0.86757
Gamma 1.03356
Sun Right Ascension 21h18m22.7s
Sun Declination -15°41'30.6"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'13.3"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9"
Moon Right Ascension 21h16m47.2s
Moon Declination -14°47'52.5"
Moon Semi-Diameter 15'25.7"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°56'37.5"
ΔT 93.9 s

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 January–February 2065
January 22
Descending node (full moon)
February 5
Ascending node (new moon)
 
Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 125
Partial solar eclipse
Solar Saros 151

Solar eclipses of 2062–2065

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This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[3]

The partial solar eclipses on July 3, 2065 and December 27, 2065 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2062 to 2065
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
121 March 11, 2062
 
Partial
−1.0238 126 September 3, 2062
 
Partial
1.0191
131 February 28, 2063
 
Annular
−0.336 136 August 24, 2063
 
Total
0.2771
141 February 17, 2064
 
Annular
0.3597 146 August 12, 2064
 
Total
−0.4652
151 February 5, 2065
 
Partial
1.0336 156 August 2, 2065
 
Partial
−1.2759

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 151, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 14, 1776. It contains annular eclipses from February 28, 2101 through April 23, 2191; a hybrid eclipse on May 5, 2209; and total eclipses from May 16, 2227 through July 6, 2912. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on October 1, 3056. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 19 at 2 minutes, 44 seconds on February 28, 2101, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 60 at 5 minutes, 41 seconds on May 22, 2840. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[4]

Series members 3–24 occur between 1801 and 2200:
3 4 5
 
September 5, 1812
 
September 17, 1830
 
September 27, 1848
6 7 8
 
October 8, 1866
 
October 19, 1884
 
October 31, 1902
9 10 11
 
November 10, 1920
 
November 21, 1938
 
December 2, 1956
12 13 14
 
December 13, 1974
 
December 24, 1992
 
January 4, 2011
15 16 17
 
January 14, 2029
 
January 26, 2047
 
February 5, 2065
18 19 20
 
February 16, 2083
 
February 28, 2101
 
March 11, 2119
21 22 23
 
March 21, 2137
 
April 2, 2155
 
April 12, 2173
24
 
April 23, 2191

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

21 eclipse events between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2076
July 1–2 April 19–20 February 5–7 November 24–25 September 12–13
117 119 121 123 125
 
July 1, 2000
 
April 19, 2004
 
February 7, 2008
 
November 25, 2011
 
September 13, 2015
127 129 131 133 135
 
July 2, 2019
 
April 20, 2023
 
February 6, 2027
 
November 25, 2030
 
September 12, 2034
137 139 141 143 145
 
July 2, 2038
 
April 20, 2042
 
February 5, 2046
 
November 25, 2049
 
September 12, 2053
147 149 151 153 155
 
July 1, 2057
 
April 20, 2061
 
February 5, 2065
 
November 24, 2068
 
September 12, 2072
157
 
July 1, 2076

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
 
February 21, 1803
(Saros 127)
 
January 21, 1814
(Saros 128)
 
December 20, 1824
(Saros 129)
 
November 20, 1835
(Saros 130)
 
October 20, 1846
(Saros 131)
 
September 18, 1857
(Saros 132)
 
August 18, 1868
(Saros 133)
 
July 19, 1879
(Saros 134)
 
June 17, 1890
(Saros 135)
 
May 18, 1901
(Saros 136)
 
April 17, 1912
(Saros 137)
 
March 17, 1923
(Saros 138)
 
February 14, 1934
(Saros 139)
 
January 14, 1945
(Saros 140)
 
December 14, 1955
(Saros 141)
 
November 12, 1966
(Saros 142)
 
October 12, 1977
(Saros 143)
 
September 11, 1988
(Saros 144)
 
August 11, 1999
(Saros 145)
 
July 11, 2010
(Saros 146)
 
June 10, 2021
(Saros 147)
 
May 9, 2032
(Saros 148)
 
April 9, 2043
(Saros 149)
 
March 9, 2054
(Saros 150)
 
February 5, 2065
(Saros 151)
 
January 6, 2076
(Saros 152)
 
December 6, 2086
(Saros 153)
 
November 4, 2097
(Saros 154)
 
October 5, 2108
(Saros 155)
 
September 5, 2119
(Saros 156)
 
August 4, 2130
(Saros 157)
 
July 3, 2141
(Saros 158)
 
June 3, 2152
(Saros 159)
 
April 1, 2174
(Saros 161)

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
 
August 5, 1804
(Saros 142)
 
July 17, 1833
(Saros 143)
 
June 27, 1862
(Saros 144)
 
June 6, 1891
(Saros 145)
 
May 18, 1920
(Saros 146)
 
April 28, 1949
(Saros 147)
 
April 7, 1978
(Saros 148)
 
March 19, 2007
(Saros 149)
 
February 27, 2036
(Saros 150)
 
February 5, 2065
(Saros 151)
 
January 16, 2094
(Saros 152)
 
December 28, 2122
(Saros 153)
 
December 8, 2151
(Saros 154)
 
November 17, 2180
(Saros 155)
  1. ^ "February 5, 2065 Partial Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Partial Solar Eclipse of 2065 Feb 05". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  3. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  4. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 151". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.