Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044

Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044
Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044
	UTC)
Greatest eclipse	1:17:02
References
Saros	126 (49 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9606

A total

apparent diameter

is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of miles wide.

Path

Totality will be visible in the evening of August 22 across:^[1]

Northwestern Greenland
In Canada:
- Northern and western Nunavut
- Central Northwest Territories
- Extreme southeast Yukon
- Eastern British Columbia, including Dawson Creek and Fernie
- Much of Alberta including Edmonton, Calgary, and Lethbridge
- Southwestern Saskatchewan, including Swift Current
In the United States:
- The northeastern half of Montana. Glacier National Park, Great Falls, Lewistown, and Forsyth will be just inside the path of totality.
- Western North Dakota, including Williston, Minot, and Dickinson
- Extreme northwest South Dakota

Partiality will be visible in Siberia in the morning of August 23, and throughout western Canada and United States until sunset on August 22.

The greatest duration of the total eclipse will be observed in the Northwest Territories, approximately 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Great Bear Lake.^[2]

This is the last of 41 umbral solar eclipses (annular, total or hybrid) of Solar Saros 126. The first umbral was in 1323 and last will be in 2044. The total duration is 721 years.

Images

Animated path

Related eclipses

The eclipse is a member of a semester series of solar eclipses that repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.^[3] It is also part of Saros cycle 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events.

References

^ "Total Solar Eclipse on August 22–23, 2044: Path Map and Times". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
^ "Greatest Duration of Total Solar Eclipse of 2044 Aug 23". NASA Eclipse Website. NASA. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Archived from the original on September 7, 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

External links

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2044Aug23T.GIF

[1] "Total Solar Eclipse on August 22–23, 2044: Path Map and Times". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2024-03-23.

[Greatest_Duration_of_Total_Solar_Eclipse_of_2044_Aug_23-2] "Greatest Duration of Total Solar Eclipse of 2044 Aug 23". NASA Eclipse Website. NASA. Retrieved 9 September 2017.

[3] van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Archived from the original on September 7, 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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