An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Sunday, June 21, 2020, with a magnitude of 0.994. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring 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 6.2 days after apogee (on June 15, 2020, at 1:55 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.

Path The path of this annular eclipse passed through parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea in Africa; the southern Arabian Peninsula, including Yemen, Oman, and southern Saudi Arabia; parts of South Asia and the Himalayas, including southern Pakistan and northern India; and parts of East Asia, including South China and Taiwan. A partial eclipse was visible throughout much of the rest of Africa, Southeast Europe, most of Asia, and in New Guinea and northern Australia just before sunset. In Europe, the partial eclipse was visible to places southeast of the line passing through parts of Italy, Hungary, Ukraine, and southwestern Russia.

Eclipse timing Places experiencing annular eclipse Solar Eclipse of June 21, 2020(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseStart of annular eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of annular eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of annularity (min:s)Duration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Impfondo 05:43:11 (sunrise) 05:48:05 05:48:40 05:49:14 06:52:20 1:09 1:09 95.68% Obo 05:02:51 (sunrise) 05:49:40 05:50:18 05:50:56 06:59:22 1:16 1:57 96.20% Lalibela 06:52:22 07:59:40 08:00:14 08:00:48 09:20:02 1:08 2:28 97.06% Sukkur 09:33:25 11:07:30 11:07:50 11:08:08 12:54:16 0:38 3:21 98.79% Pano Aqil 09:34:04 11:08:21 11:08:40 11:09:00 12:55:06 0:39 3:21 98.79% New Mandi Gharsana 10:12:30 11:50:12 11:50:27 11:50:42 13:37:08 0:30 3:25 98.89% Sirsa 10:16:56 11:56:07 11:56:21 11:56:35 13:42:43 0:28 3:26 98.92% Dehradun 10:24:10 12:05:19 12:05:30 12:05:40 13:50:46 0:21 3:27 98.96% New Tehri 10:25:04 12:06:23 12:06:38 12:06:53 13:51:47 0:30 3:27 98.96% Xiamen 14:43:43 16:10:26 16:10:54 16:11:22 17:24:21 0:56 2:41 97.75%References:

Places experiencing partial eclipse Solar Eclipse of June 21, 2020(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Mbandaka 05:45:06 (sunrise) 05:47:49 06:51:24 1:06 92.76% Bangui 05:36:25 (sunrise) 05:50:10 06:54:13 1:18 88.49% Juba 06:47:57 07:50:34 09:02:49 2:19 87.91% Addis Ababa 06:49:50 07:56:55 09:15:43 2:26 89.09% Khartoum 05:57:24 07:01:08 08:14:38 2:17 75.56% Djibouti 06:52:18 08:02:34 09:25:58 2:34 89.44% Asmara 06:55:54 08:04:00 09:23:52 2:28 87.79% Sanaa 06:56:15 08:08:01 09:33:15 2:37 97.33% Riyadh 07:10:09 08:23:36 09:49:42 2:40 73.19% Doha 07:12:49 08:30:35 10:02:12 2:49 79.67% Manama 07:14:07 08:30:47 10:00:40 2:47 75.06% Dubai 08:14:50 09:36:12 11:12:15 2:57 86.35% Muscat 08:14:38 09:39:14 11:19:37 3:05 97.53% Karachi 09:26:26 10:59:26 12:46:39 3:20 91.49% Kabul 09:16:20 10:46:56 12:25:47 3:09 75.03% Islamabad 09:50:29 11:25:11 13:06:30 3:16 82.01% Lahore 09:48:49 11:26:19 13:10:29 3:22 91.21% New Delhi 10:20:05 12:01:47 13:48:48 3:29 93.75% Kathmandu 10:54:03 12:41:11 14:24:45 3:31 85.97% Thimphu 11:21:23 13:09:30 14:49:24 3:28 84.78% Dhaka 11:23:09 13:12:38 14:52:13 3:29 70.14% Lhasa 13:26:49 15:13:16 16:50:51 3:24 93.78% Chongqing 14:11:45 15:48:56 17:11:46 3:00 94.77% Hanoi 13:16:18 14:55:55 16:18:27 3:02 70.98% Shanghai 14:45:45 16:06:27 17:16:12 2:30 70.99% Hong Kong 14:37:10 16:08:28 17:24:35 2:47 86.00% Taipei 14:50:04 16:13:36 17:24:32 2:34 91.71% Manila 15:01:12 16:23:03 17:31:43 2:31 68.37% Saipan 17:25:21 18:29:57 18:49:42 (sunset) 1:24 88.10% Hagåtña 17:25:57 18:31:11 18:50:27 (sunset) 1:25 95.18%References:

Gallery

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 21, 2020 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2020 June 21 at 03:47:09.9 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2020 June 21 at 04:48:54.2 UTC First Central Line 2020 June 21 at 04:49:37.4 UTC Greatest Duration 2020 June 21 at 04:49:37.4 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 2020 June 21 at 04:50:20.7 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 2020 June 21 at 05:52:48.7 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2020 June 21 at 06:41:15.4 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2020 June 21 at 06:42:34.5 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2020 June 21 at 06:42:36.6 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2020 June 21 at 07:29:41.2 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2020 June 21 at 08:32:11.3 UTC Last Central Line 2020 June 21 at 08:32:51.7 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2020 June 21 at 08:33:32.0 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2020 June 21 at 09:35:13.9 UTC

+June 21, 2020 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.99401 Eclipse Obscuration 0.98806 Gamma 0.12090 Sun Right Ascension 06h01m33.0s Sun Declination +23°26'09.7" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'44.2" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 06h01m30.2s Moon Declination +23°32'56.7" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'24.0" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°56'31.1" ΔT 70.0 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 2020 June 5Descending node (full moon) June 21Ascending node (new moon) July 5Descending node (full moon) Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 111 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 137 Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 149

Related eclipses Eclipses in 2020 A penumbral lunar eclipse on January 10. A penumbral lunar eclipse on June 5. An annular solar eclipse on June 21. A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 5. A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 30. A total solar eclipse on December 14.

Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 1, 2016 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024

Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 2, 2027

Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of June 15, 2011 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of June 26, 2029

Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 21, 2031

Solar Saros 137 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 2, 2038

Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 31, 2049

Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 23, 2107

Solar eclipses of 2018–2021

Saros 137

Metonic series

Tritos series

Inex series

References

External links

solar-eclipse.de: The annular solar eclipse of 06/21/2020 Annular Solar Eclipse 2020 Chinese satellite images (via twitter)