An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, February 17, 2064, with a magnitude of 0.9262. 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 2.5 days before apogee (on February 15, 2064, at 18:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.

The path of annularity will be visible from parts of southeastern Congo, northern Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, extreme northern Zambia, Tanzania, the Seychelles, India, Nepal, northwestern Bangladesh, Bhutan, and China. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for most of Africa and Asia.

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.

February 17, 2064 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2064 February 17 at 03:59:12.4 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2064 February 17 at 05:06:37.9 UTC
First Central Line2064 February 17 at 05:09:55.6 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2064 February 17 at 05:13:14.1 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact2064 February 17 at 06:33:12.1 UTC
Greatest Duration2064 February 17 at 06:44:39.0 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2064 February 17 at 07:00:23.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2064 February 17 at 07:04:41.9 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2064 February 17 at 07:21:11.6 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact2064 February 17 at 07:27:03.5 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2064 February 17 at 08:47:18.3 UTC
Last Central Line2064 February 17 at 08:50:38.5 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2064 February 17 at 08:53:57.9 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2064 February 17 at 10:01:29.1 UTC
February 17, 2064 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.92624
Eclipse Obscuration0.85792
Gamma0.35965
Sun Right Ascension22h02m13.8s
Sun Declination-12°01'37.5"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'11.3"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension22h01m38.9s
Moon Declination-11°44'08.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'47.1"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'15.6"
ΔT93.2 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 2064
February 2 Descending node (full moon)February 17 Ascending node (new moon)
Partial lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 115Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 141

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2064

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 141

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2062–2065

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.

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 nodeDescending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
121March 11, 2062 Partial−1.0238126September 3, 2062 Partial1.0191
131February 28, 2063 Annular−0.336136August 24, 2063 Total0.2771
141February 17, 2064 Annular0.3597146August 12, 2064 Total−0.4652
151February 5, 2065 Partial1.0336156August 2, 2065 Partial−1.2759

Saros 141

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 141, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains annular eclipses from August 4, 1739 through October 14, 2640. There are no hybrid or total eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. 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 was produced by member 20 at 12 minutes, 9 seconds on December 14, 1955. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.

Series members 12–33 occur between 1801 and 2200:
121314
September 17, 1811September 28, 1829October 9, 1847
151617
October 19, 1865October 30, 1883November 11, 1901
181920
November 22, 1919December 2, 1937December 14, 1955
212223
December 24, 1973January 4, 1992January 15, 2010
242526
January 26, 2028February 5, 2046February 17, 2064
272829
February 27, 2082March 10, 2100March 22, 2118
303132
April 1, 2136April 12, 2154April 23, 2172
33
May 4, 2190

Metonic series

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 13, 2018 and July 12, 2094
July 12–13April 30–May 1February 16–17December 5–6September 22–23
117119121123125
July 13, 2018April 30, 2022February 17, 2026December 5, 2029September 23, 2033
127129131133135
July 13, 2037April 30, 2041February 16, 2045December 5, 2048September 22, 2052
137139141143145
July 12, 2056April 30, 2060February 17, 2064December 6, 2067September 23, 2071
147149151153155
July 13, 2075May 1, 2079February 16, 2083December 6, 2086September 23, 2090
157
July 12, 2094

Tritos series

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
March 4, 1802 (Saros 117)February 1, 1813 (Saros 118)January 1, 1824 (Saros 119)November 30, 1834 (Saros 120)October 30, 1845 (Saros 121)
September 29, 1856 (Saros 122)August 29, 1867 (Saros 123)July 29, 1878 (Saros 124)June 28, 1889 (Saros 125)May 28, 1900 (Saros 126)
April 28, 1911 (Saros 127)March 28, 1922 (Saros 128)February 24, 1933 (Saros 129)January 25, 1944 (Saros 130)December 25, 1954 (Saros 131)
November 23, 1965 (Saros 132)October 23, 1976 (Saros 133)September 23, 1987 (Saros 134)August 22, 1998 (Saros 135)July 22, 2009 (Saros 136)
June 21, 2020 (Saros 137)May 21, 2031 (Saros 138)April 20, 2042 (Saros 139)March 20, 2053 (Saros 140)February 17, 2064 (Saros 141)
January 16, 2075 (Saros 142)December 16, 2085 (Saros 143)November 15, 2096 (Saros 144)October 16, 2107 (Saros 145)September 15, 2118 (Saros 146)
August 15, 2129 (Saros 147)July 14, 2140 (Saros 148)June 14, 2151 (Saros 149)May 14, 2162 (Saros 150)April 12, 2173 (Saros 151)
March 12, 2184 (Saros 152)February 10, 2195 (Saros 153)

Inex series

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 17, 1803 (Saros 132)July 27, 1832 (Saros 133)July 8, 1861 (Saros 134)
June 17, 1890 (Saros 135)May 29, 1919 (Saros 136)May 9, 1948 (Saros 137)
April 18, 1977 (Saros 138)March 29, 2006 (Saros 139)March 9, 2035 (Saros 140)
February 17, 2064 (Saros 141)January 27, 2093 (Saros 142)January 8, 2122 (Saros 143)
December 19, 2150 (Saros 144)November 28, 2179 (Saros 145)

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