Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019
An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 26, 2019. 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. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
The annularity was visible in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.
Details
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.97010 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.94110 |
| Gamma | 0.41351 |
| Saros series | 132 |
| Greatest Eclipse | 26 Dec 2019 05:17:43.6 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 26 Dec 2019 05:13:07.5 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 26 Dec 2019 05:14:34.3 UTC |
| Coordinate | Sun | Moon |
| Right Ascension | 18.3 | 18.3 |
| Declination | -23.4 | -23 |
| Diameter | 1951.4 | 1866.0 |
| Contact Event | Time UTC |
| First Penumbral External Contact | 02:29:51.3 |
| First Umbral External Contact | 03:34:32.2 |
| First Central Line | 03:36:04.1 |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 03:37:36.3 |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 05:01:26.1 |
| Greatest Eclipse | 05:17:43.6 |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 05:34:04.7 |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 06:57:50.7 |
| Last Central Line | 06:59:25.9 |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 07:01:00.9 |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 08:05:43.9 |
Visibility and viewing
It was the last solar eclipse of 2019. The central path of the 2019 annular eclipse passed through Saudi Arabian Peninsula, southern India, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines and Guam. A partial eclipse was visible thousands of kilometers wide from the central path. It covered small parts of Eastern Europe, much of Asia, North/West Australia, East in Africa, Pacific and Indian Ocean. The eclipse started with an antumbra having a magnitude of.96; it stretched 164 kilometers wide, and traveled towards the east at an average rate of 1.1 kilometer per second. The longest duration of annularity was 3 minutes and 40 seconds, at 5.30 UT1 occurring in the South China Sea., India.
The eclipse began in Saudi Arabia about 220 kilometers northeast of Riyadh at 03:43 UT1 and ended in Guam at 06:59.4 UT1. It reached India near Kannur, Kerala, at 03:56 UT1. The shadow reached the southeast coast of India at 04:04 UT1. Traveling through northern Sri Lanka, it headed into the Bay of Bengal. The next main visible places were Palau, Sumatra and Singapore. It then passed through the South China Sea, crossed Borneo and the Celebes Sea, the Philippines archipelago and then headed towards the western Pacific. The antumbral shadow encountered Guam at 6:56 UT1 and rose back into space.
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Eclipses of 2019
- A partial solar eclipse on January 6.
- A total lunar eclipse on January 21.
- A total solar eclipse on July 2.
- A partial lunar eclipse on July 16.
- An annular solar eclipse on December 26.
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- Followed: Lunar eclipse of December 31, 2028
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- Followed: Solar eclipse of November 25, 2030
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- Followed: Solar eclipse of October 26, 2106
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