A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, November 26, 2076, with a magnitude of 0.7315. 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 last of four solar eclipses in 2076, with the others occurring on January 6, June 1, and July 1.

The partial solar eclipse will be visible for parts of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and the Russian Far East.

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.

November 26, 2076 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2076 November 26 at 09:46:54.5 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2076 November 26 at 11:07:03.6 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2076 November 26 at 11:30:38.9 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2076 November 26 at 11:43:00.9 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2076 November 26 at 13:39:16.9 UTC
November 26, 2076 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.73147
Eclipse Obscuration0.65559
Gamma1.14014
Sun Right Ascension16h12m39.7s
Sun Declination-21°08'26.9"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'12.3"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension16h13m56.6s
Moon Declination-20°05'16.9"
Moon Semi-Diameter15'44.2"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°57'45.3"
ΔT102.9 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 November–December 2076
November 26 Descending node (new moon)December 10 Ascending node (full moon)
Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 124Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 136

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2076

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

  • Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 21, 2067
  • Followed by: Lunar eclipse of December 1, 2085

Tritos

Solar Saros 124

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2076–2079

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 6, 2076 and July 1, 2076 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2076 to 2079
Ascending nodeDescending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
119June 1, 2076 Partial−1.3897124November 26, 2076 Partial1.1401
129May 22, 2077 Total−0.5725134November 15, 2077 Annular0.4705
139May 11, 2078 Total0.1838144November 4, 2078 Annular−0.2285
149May 1, 2079 Total0.9081154October 24, 2079 Annular−0.9243

Saros 124

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 124, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 6, 1049. It contains total eclipses from June 12, 1211 through September 22, 1968, and a hybrid eclipse on October 3, 1986. There are no annular eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on May 11, 2347. 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 5 minutes, 46 seconds on May 3, 1734. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.

Series members 43–64 occur between 1801 and 2200:
434445
June 16, 1806June 26, 1824July 8, 1842
464748
July 18, 1860July 29, 1878August 9, 1896
495051
August 21, 1914August 31, 1932September 12, 1950
525354
September 22, 1968October 3, 1986October 14, 2004
555657
October 25, 2022November 4, 2040November 16, 2058
585960
November 26, 2076December 7, 2094December 19, 2112
616263
December 30, 2130January 9, 2149January 21, 2167
64
January 31, 2185

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 July 3, 2065 and November 26, 2152
July 3–4April 21–23February 7–8November 26–27September 13–15
118120122124126
July 3, 2065April 21, 2069February 7, 2073November 26, 2076September 13, 2080
128130132134136
July 3, 2084April 21, 2088February 7, 2092November 27, 2095September 14, 2099
138140142144146
July 4, 2103April 23, 2107February 8, 2111November 27, 2114September 15, 2118
148150152154156
July 4, 2122April 22, 2126February 8, 2130November 26, 2133September 15, 2137
158160162164
July 3, 2141November 26, 2152

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.

The partial solar eclipses on April 8, 1902 (part of Saros 108) and January 5, 1935 (part of Saros 111) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.

Series members between 2000 and 2200
July 1, 2000 (Saros 117)June 1, 2011 (Saros 118)April 30, 2022 (Saros 119)March 30, 2033 (Saros 120)February 28, 2044 (Saros 121)
January 27, 2055 (Saros 122)December 27, 2065 (Saros 123)November 26, 2076 (Saros 124)October 26, 2087 (Saros 125)September 25, 2098 (Saros 126)
August 26, 2109 (Saros 127)July 25, 2120 (Saros 128)June 25, 2131 (Saros 129)May 25, 2142 (Saros 130)April 23, 2153 (Saros 131)
March 23, 2164 (Saros 132)February 21, 2175 (Saros 133)January 20, 2186 (Saros 134)December 19, 2196 (Saros 135)

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
May 27, 1816 (Saros 115)May 6, 1845 (Saros 116)April 16, 1874 (Saros 117)
March 29, 1903 (Saros 118)March 7, 1932 (Saros 119)February 15, 1961 (Saros 120)
January 26, 1990 (Saros 121)January 6, 2019 (Saros 122)December 16, 2047 (Saros 123)
November 26, 2076 (Saros 124)November 6, 2105 (Saros 125)October 17, 2134 (Saros 126)
September 28, 2163 (Saros 127)September 6, 2192 (Saros 128)

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