Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 2, 2024. 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.
Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.3509 |
Magnitude | 0.9326 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 445 s (7 min 25 s) |
Coordinates | 22°S 114.5°W / -22; -114.5 |
Max. width of band | 266 km (165 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 18:46:13 |
References | |
Saros | 144 (17 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9562 |
Other than Easter Island and a small portion near the southern tips of Argentina and Chile and the north of the Falkland Islands,[1] the path of the eclipse's antumbra will be entirely over the Pacific Ocean. The penumbra will be visible from southern South America, Hawaii, the southwesternmost parts of Mexico (more specifically, Baja California del Sur and Jalisco), and portions of Antarctica. Approximately 175,000 people live in the path of annularity.[2][3] The eclipse’s magnitude will be 0.93261, occurring only 56 minutes before apogee.
The next solar eclipse occurs on March 29, 2025.