A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, June 12, 2029, with a magnitude of 0.4576. 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.

This will be the second of four partial solar eclipses in 2029, with the others occurring on January 14, July 11, and December 5.

A partial eclipse will be visible for parts of Northern and Central Europe, northern Russia, Greenland, Alaska, and northwestern Canada.

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Eclipse timing

Places experiencing partial eclipse

Solar Eclipse of June 12, 2029(Local Times)
Country or territoryCity or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage
UkraineKyiv05:30:1505:45:4706:01:350:310.85%
HungaryBudapest04:46:17 (sunrise)04:50:0905:09:050:232.39%
RussiaMoscow05:31:5605:51:5906:12:280:411.60%
BelarusMinsk05:27:2005:52:1906:17:560:513.70%
PolandWarsaw04:26:3004:53:0205:20:180:544.96%
LithuaniaVilnius05:27:0705:54:2806:22:370:565.04%
SlovakiaBratislava04:51:05 (sunrise)04:55:0305:13:420:233.26%
Czech RepublicPrague04:52:33 (sunrise)04:56:4705:22:020:295.80%
AustriaVienna04:53:47 (sunrise)04:57:4505:14:490:213.28%
GermanyBerlin04:43:31 (sunrise)04:57:5205:28:550:458.13%
LatviaRiga05:27:5705:58:2806:29:551:027.05%
EstoniaTallinn05:29:2806:02:1106:35:551:068.50%
DenmarkCopenhagen04:29:0505:02:2405:36:431:1110.82%
FinlandHelsinki05:29:5906:03:1906:37:391:088.91%
SwedenStockholm04:30:0205:04:4505:40:321:1111.11%
Åland IslandsMariehamn05:30:1906:05:0806:40:591:1110.86%
NorwayOslo04:32:1705:09:0905:47:061:1514.47%
Faroe IslandsTórshavn03:41:1404:21:4605:03:161:2422.29%
NetherlandsAmsterdam05:18:17 (sunrise)05:22:5205:36:540:195.77%
BelgiumBrussels05:28:54 (sunrise)05:31:4305:34:250:060.58%
United KingdomEdinburgh04:27:06 (sunrise)04:32:3104:50:420:2410.11%
IcelandReykjavík03:00:38 (sunrise)03:33:3404:16:521:1627.79%
Svalbard and Jan MayenLongyearbyen04:53:1305:37:5006:23:141:3020.06%
GreenlandKangerlussuaq02:09:5202:54:3003:39:201:2933.41%
GreenlandPituffik00:17:4001:04:4801:51:471:3431.44%
CanadaPond Inlet23:24:0000:10:3300:56:471:3332.79%
CanadaBaker Lake22:42:1923:26:4023:55:12 (sunset)1:1331.12%
CanadaInuvik21:57:2022:41:3923:24:461:2721.68%
United StatesJuneau20:17:4520:57:1421:35:281:1816.78%
United StatesAnchorage20:21:0020:59:1421:36:101:1512.17%
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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.

June 12, 2029 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2029 June 12 at 02:27:40.7 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2029 June 12 at 03:51:42.6 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2029 June 12 at 04:01:14.1 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2029 June 12 at 04:06:13.0 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2029 June 12 at 05:44:42.8 UTC
June 12, 2029 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.45761
Eclipse Obscuration0.34111
Gamma1.29431
Sun Right Ascension05h22m58.2s
Sun Declination+23°09'45.7"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'45.0"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension05h23m08.9s
Moon Declination+24°21'37.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter15'10.6"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°55'42.0"
ΔT73.6 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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of June–July 2029
June 12 Descending node (new moon)June 26 Ascending node (full moon)July 11 Descending node (new moon)
Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 118Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 130Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 156

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2029

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 118

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2029–2032

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 January 14, 2029 and July 11, 2029 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2029 to 2032
Descending nodeAscending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
118June 12, 2029 Partial1.29431123December 5, 2029 Partial−1.06090
128June 1, 2030 Annular0.56265133November 25, 2030 Total−0.38669
138May 21, 2031 Annular−0.19699143November 14, 2031 Hybrid0.30776
148May 9, 2032 Annular−0.93748153November 3, 2032 Partial1.06431

Saros 118

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 118, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 24, 803 AD. It contains total eclipses from August 19, 947 AD through October 25, 1650; hybrid eclipses on November 4, 1668 and November 15, 1686; and annular eclipses from November 27, 1704 through April 30, 1957. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on July 15, 2083. 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 34 at 6 minutes, 59 seconds on May 16, 1398, and the longest duration of annularity was produced by member 59 at 1 minutes, 58 seconds on February 23, 1849. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.

Series members 57–72 occur between 1801 and 2083:
575859
February 1, 1813February 12, 1831February 23, 1849
606162
March 6, 1867March 16, 1885March 29, 1903
636465
April 8, 1921April 19, 1939April 30, 1957
666768
May 11, 1975May 21, 1993June 1, 2011
697071
June 12, 2029June 23, 2047July 3, 2065
72
July 15, 2083

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 descending node.

22 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and November 4, 2116
June 11–12March 30–31January 16November 4–5August 23–24
118120122124126
June 12, 2029March 30, 2033January 16, 2037November 4, 2040August 23, 2044
128130132134136
June 11, 2048March 30, 2052January 16, 2056November 5, 2059August 24, 2063
138140142144146
June 11, 2067March 31, 2071January 16, 2075November 4, 2078August 24, 2082
148150152154156
June 11, 2086March 31, 2090January 16, 2094November 4, 2097August 24, 2101
158160162164
June 12, 2105November 4, 2116

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 2018 and 2200
July 13, 2018 (Saros 117)June 12, 2029 (Saros 118)May 11, 2040 (Saros 119)April 11, 2051 (Saros 120)March 11, 2062 (Saros 121)
February 7, 2073 (Saros 122)January 7, 2084 (Saros 123)December 7, 2094 (Saros 124)November 6, 2105 (Saros 125)October 6, 2116 (Saros 126)
September 6, 2127 (Saros 127)August 5, 2138 (Saros 128)July 5, 2149 (Saros 129)June 4, 2160 (Saros 130)May 5, 2171 (Saros 131)
April 3, 2182 (Saros 132)March 3, 2193 (Saros 133)

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
October 31, 1826 (Saros 111)
August 31, 1913 (Saros 114)August 12, 1942 (Saros 115)July 22, 1971 (Saros 116)
July 1, 2000 (Saros 117)June 12, 2029 (Saros 118)May 22, 2058 (Saros 119)
May 2, 2087 (Saros 120)April 13, 2116 (Saros 121)March 23, 2145 (Saros 122)
March 3, 2174 (Saros 123)

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