Solar eclipse of February 6, 2027

Solar eclipse of February 6, 2027
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.2952
Magnitude	0.9281
Maximum eclipse
Duration	471 s (7 min 51 s)
Coordinates	31.3°S 48.5°W / -31.3; -48.5
Max. width of band	282 km (175 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	16:00:48
References
Saros	131 (51 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9567

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, February 6, 2027. 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.

On February 6, 2027, the path of annularity will first pass through South America, visiting cities such as Castro, Chile and Viedma, Argentina. The eclipse will then pass across the South Atlantic Ocean, terminating on the West African coast, where it will also serve cities such as Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Accra, Ghana; Lomé, Togo; Cotonou, Benin; and Lagos, Nigeria. A partial eclipse will be visible in much of South America and the western half of Africa.

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Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2027

• An annular solar eclipse on February 6.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on February 20.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 18.
• A total solar eclipse on August 2.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 17.

Solar eclipses 2026–2029

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2026 to 2029

Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
121	2026 February 17 Annular	−0.97427		126	2026 August 12 Total	0.89774
131	2027 February 6 Annular	−0.29515		136	2027 August 2 Total	0.14209
141	2028 January 26 Annular	0.39014		146	2028 July 22 Total	−0.60557
151	2029 January 14 Partial	1.05532		156	2029 July 11 Partial	−1.41908

Partial solar eclipses on June 12, 2029, and December 5, 2029, occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 131

It is a part of Saros cycle 131, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 1, 1125. It contains total eclipses from March 27, 1522 through May 30, 1612 and hybrid eclipses from June 10, 1630 through July 24, 1702, and annular eclipses from August 4, 1720 through June 18, 2243. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on September 2, 2369. The longest duration of totality was only 58 seconds on May 30, 1612. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.

Series members 33–70 occur between 1702 and 2369
33	34	35
July 24, 1702	August 4, 1720	August 15, 1738
36	37	38
August 25, 1756	September 6, 1774	September 16, 1792
39	40	41
September 28, 1810	October 9, 1828	October 20, 1846
42	43	44
October 30, 1864	November 10, 1882	November 22, 1900
45	46	47
December 3, 1918	December 13, 1936	December 25, 1954
48	49	50
January 4, 1973	January 15, 1991	January 26, 2009
51	52	53
February 6, 2027	February 16, 2045	February 28, 2063
54	55	56
March 10, 2081	March 21, 2099	April 2, 2117
57	58	59
April 13, 2135	April 23, 2153	May 5, 2171
60	61	62
May 15, 2189	May 27, 2207	June 6, 2225
63	64	65
June 18, 2243	June 28, 2261	July 9, 2279
66	67	68
July 20, 2297	August 1, 2315	August 11, 2333
69	70
August 22, 2351	September 2, 2369

Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2076
July 1–2	April 19–20	February 5–7	November 24–25	September 12–13
117	119	121	123	125
July 1, 2000	April 19, 2004	February 7, 2008	November 25, 2011	September 13, 2015
127	129	131	133	135
July 2, 2019	April 20, 2023	February 6, 2027	November 25, 2030	September 12, 2034
137	139	141	143	145
July 2, 2038	April 20, 2042	February 5, 2046	November 25, 2049	September 12, 2053
147	149	151	153	155
July 1, 2057	April 20, 2061	February 5, 2065	November 24, 2068	September 12, 2072
157	159	161	163	165
July 1, 2076

External links

• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2027Feb06A.GIF