An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Saturday, January 27, 2074, with a magnitude of 0.9798. 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 5.2 days after apogee (on January 21, 2074, at 13:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
The path of annularity will be visible from parts of eastern Chad, Sudan, northern South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southeastern China, and southwestern Japan. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Central Africa, East Africa, Eastern Europe, 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.
+January 27, 2074 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2074 January 27 at 03:58:42.2 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2074 January 27 at 05:02:58.1 UTC First Central Line 2074 January 27 at 05:04:09.1 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 2074 January 27 at 05:05:20.2 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 2074 January 27 at 06:31:06.3 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2074 January 27 at 06:39:34.7 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2074 January 27 at 06:44:15.3 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2074 January 27 at 06:51:50.3 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2074 January 27 at 06:57:10.8 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2074 January 27 at 08:23:02.8 UTC Last Central Line 2074 January 27 at 18:06:19.2 UTC Greatest Duration 2074 January 27 at 08:24:16.9 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2074 January 27 at 08:24:16.9 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2074 January 27 at 09:29:51.4 UTC
+January 27, 2074 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.97978 Eclipse Obscuration 0.95998 Gamma 0.42511 Sun Right Ascension 20h40m20.9s Sun Declination -18°20'28.4" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'14.5" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 20h40m04.5s Moon Declination -17°56'22.6" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'41.1" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°57'33.8" ΔT 100.6 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.
+ Eclipse season of January–February 2074 January 27Descending node (new moon) February 11Ascending node (full moon) Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 132 Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 144
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2074 An annular solar eclipse on January 27. A penumbral lunar eclipse on February 11. A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 8. An annular solar eclipse on July 24. A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 7.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 11, 2070 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 17, 2066 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 10, 2081
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of January 22, 2065 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of February 2, 2083
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 28, 2063 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 27, 2084
Solar Saros 132 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 2056 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 7, 2092
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 16, 2045 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 8, 2103
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 29, 1987 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 27, 2160
Solar eclipses of 2073–2076
Saros 132
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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