# Solar eclipse of May 9, 2032

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Sunday, May 9, 2032, with a magnitude of 0.9957. 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. The Moon's apparent diameter will be near the average diameter because it will occur 5.7 days after perigee (on May 3, 2032, at 21:40 UTC) and 7.4 days before apogee (on May 16, 2032, at 23:20 UTC).
Since most of the path of this eclipse is narrow and passes over the South Atlantic Ocean, no land areas will witness annularity. However, a partial eclipse will be visible for parts of southern South America and Southern Africa.

## Images

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## 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.
May 9, 2032 Solar Eclipse Times :
| Event | Time (UTC) |
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2032 May 09 at 11:11:06.6 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2032 May 09 at 12:48:26.6 UTC |
| First Central Line | 2032 May 09 at 12:49:18.2 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 2032 May 09 at 12:49:18.2 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2032 May 09 at 12:50:10.9 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2032 May 09 at 13:08:19.5 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2032 May 09 at 13:26:42.4 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2032 May 09 at 13:36:54.7 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2032 May 09 at 14:03:24.2 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 2032 May 09 at 14:04:19.8 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2032 May 09 at 14:05:14.2 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2032 May 09 at 15:42:32.2 UTC |
May 9, 2032 Solar Eclipse Parameters :
| Parameter | Value |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.99570 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.99143 |
| Gamma | −0.93748 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 03h08m06.7s |
| Sun Declination | +17°35'43.5" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'50.4" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 03h08m46.1s |
| Moon Declination | +16°42'42.0" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 15'41.5" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°57'35.4" |
| ΔT | 74.9 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 April–May 2032 :
| April 25 Ascending node (full moon) | May 9 Descending node (new moon) |
| Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 122 | Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 148 |

## Related eclipses
### Eclipses in 2032

* A total lunar eclipse on April 25.
* An annular solar eclipse on May 9.
* A total lunar eclipse on October 18.
* A partial solar eclipse on November 3.

### Metonic

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2028
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 27, 2036

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 29, 2025
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039

### Half-Saros

* Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 5, 2023
* Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 16, 2041

### Tritos

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043

### Solar Saros 148

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 20, 2050

### Inex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 31, 2003
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 20, 2061

### Triad

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1945
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 11, 2119

### Solar eclipses of 2029–2032

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.
The partial solar eclipses on January 14, 2029 and July 11, 2029 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2029 to 2032 :
| Descending node | Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma |
| 118 | June 12, 2029 Partial | 1.29431 | 123 | December 5, 2029 Partial | −1.06090 |
| 128 | June 1, 2030 Annular | 0.56265 | 133 | November 25, 2030 Total | −0.38669 |
| 138 | May 21, 2031 Annular | −0.19699 | 143 | November 14, 2031 Hybrid | 0.30776 |
| 148 | May 9, 2032 Annular | −0.93748 | 153 | November 3, 2032 Partial | 1.06431 |

### Saros 148

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 148, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 75 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on September 21, 1653. It contains annular eclipses on April 29, 2014 and May 9, 2032; a hybrid eclipse on May 20, 2050; and total eclipses from May 31, 2068 through August 3, 2771. The series ends at member 75 as a partial eclipse on December 12, 2987. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 22 at 22 seconds (by default) on May 9, 2032, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 54 at 5 minutes, 23 seconds on April 26, 2609. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.
Series members 10–31 occur between 1801 and 2200: :
| 10 | 11 | 12 |
| December 30, 1815 | January 9, 1834 | January 21, 1852 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 |
| January 31, 1870 | February 11, 1888 | February 23, 1906 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 |
| March 5, 1924 | March 16, 1942 | March 27, 1960 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 |
| April 7, 1978 | April 17, 1996 | April 29, 2014 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 |
| May 9, 2032 | May 20, 2050 | May 31, 2068 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 |
| June 11, 2086 | June 22, 2104 | July 4, 2122 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 |
| July 14, 2140 | July 25, 2158 | August 4, 2176 |
| 31 |
| August 16, 2194 |

### 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 descending node.
21 eclipse events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047 :
| July 22 | May 9–11 | February 26–27 | December 14–15 | October 2–3 |
| 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
| July 22, 1971 | May 11, 1975 | February 26, 1979 | December 15, 1982 | October 3, 1986 |
| 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
| July 22, 1990 | May 10, 1994 | February 26, 1998 | December 14, 2001 | October 3, 2005 |
| 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
| July 22, 2009 | May 10, 2013 | February 26, 2017 | December 14, 2020 | October 2, 2024 |
| 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
| July 22, 2028 | May 9, 2032 | February 27, 2036 | December 15, 2039 | October 3, 2043 |
| 156 |
| July 22, 2047 |

### Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Series members between 1801 and 2200 :
| February 21, 1803 (Saros 127) | January 21, 1814 (Saros 128) | December 20, 1824 (Saros 129) | November 20, 1835 (Saros 130) | October 20, 1846 (Saros 131) |
| September 18, 1857 (Saros 132) | August 18, 1868 (Saros 133) | July 19, 1879 (Saros 134) | June 17, 1890 (Saros 135) | May 18, 1901 (Saros 136) |
| April 17, 1912 (Saros 137) | March 17, 1923 (Saros 138) | February 14, 1934 (Saros 139) | January 14, 1945 (Saros 140) | December 14, 1955 (Saros 141) |
| November 12, 1966 (Saros 142) | October 12, 1977 (Saros 143) | September 11, 1988 (Saros 144) | August 11, 1999 (Saros 145) | July 11, 2010 (Saros 146) |
| June 10, 2021 (Saros 147) | May 9, 2032 (Saros 148) | April 9, 2043 (Saros 149) | March 9, 2054 (Saros 150) | February 5, 2065 (Saros 151) |
| January 6, 2076 (Saros 152) | December 6, 2086 (Saros 153) | November 4, 2097 (Saros 154) | October 5, 2108 (Saros 155) | September 5, 2119 (Saros 156) |
| August 4, 2130 (Saros 157) | July 3, 2141 (Saros 158) | June 3, 2152 (Saros 159) | | April 1, 2174 (Saros 161) |

### Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Series members between 1801 and 2200 :
| September 28, 1829 (Saros 141) | September 7, 1858 (Saros 142) | August 19, 1887 (Saros 143) |
| July 30, 1916 (Saros 144) | July 9, 1945 (Saros 145) | June 20, 1974 (Saros 146) |
| May 31, 2003 (Saros 147) | May 9, 2032 (Saros 148) | April 20, 2061 (Saros 149) |
| March 31, 2090 (Saros 150) | March 11, 2119 (Saros 151) | February 19, 2148 (Saros 152) |
| January 29, 2177 (Saros 153) | | |