Solar eclipse of March 21, 2080

Solar eclipse of March 21, 2080
Solar eclipse of March 21, 2080
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	−1.0578
Magnitude	0.8734
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	60°54′S 85°54′E / 60.9°S 85.9°E
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	12:20:15
References
Saros	121 (64 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9687

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, March 21, 2080, with a magnitude of 0.8734. 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.

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses of 2080–2083[edit]

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.^[1]

121	March 21, 2080 Partial	126	September 13, 2080 Partial
131	March 10, 2081 Annular	136	September 3, 2081 Total
141	February 27, 2082 Annular	146	August 24, 2082 Total
151	February 16, 2083 Partial	156	August 13, 2083 Partial

Saros 121[edit]

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 121, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on April 25, 944 AD. It contains total eclipses from July 10, 1070 through October 9, 1809; hybrid eclipses on October 20, 1827 and October 30, 1845; and annular eclipses from November 11, 1863 through February 28, 2044. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 7, 2206. 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 totality was produced by member 39 at 6 minutes, 20 seconds on June 21, 1629, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 62 at 2 minutes, 27 seconds on February 28, 2044. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.^[2]

Series members 49–70 occur between 1801 and 2200:
49	50	51
October 9, 1809	October 20, 1827	October 30, 1845
52	53	54
November 11, 1863	November 21, 1881	December 3, 1899
55	56	57
December 14, 1917	December 25, 1935	January 5, 1954
58	59	60
January 16, 1972	January 26, 1990	February 7, 2008
61	62	63
February 17, 2026	February 28, 2044	March 11, 2062
64	65	66
March 21, 2080	April 1, 2098	April 13, 2116
67	68	69
April 24, 2134	May 4, 2152	May 16, 2170
70
May 26, 2188