An annular
solar eclipse will occur on Thursday, June 11, 2048 with a magnitude of 0.9441. A
solar eclipse occurs when the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width of ...
passes between
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...
and the
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...
, 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
The angular diameter, angular size, apparent diameter, or apparent size is an angular distance describing how large a sphere or circle appears from a given point of view. In the vision sciences, it is called the visual angle, and in optics, it is ...
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.
Images
Animated path
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 2047–2050
Saros 128
Inex series
In the 19th century:
* Solar Saros 120: Total Solar Eclipse of 1816 Nov 19
* Solar Saros 121: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 1845 Oct 30
* Solar Saros 122: Annular Solar Eclipse of 1874 Oct 10
In the 22nd century:
* Solar Saros 130: Total Solar Eclipse of 2106 May 03
* Solar Saros 131: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2135 Apr 13
* Solar Saros 132: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 2164 Mar 23
* Solar Saros 133: Total Solar Eclipse of 2193 Mar 03
Metonic cycle
References
External links
NASA graphics
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