# Solar eclipse of May 31, 2049

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, May 31, 2049, with a magnitude of 0.9631. 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. Occurring about 4.1 days before apogee (on June 4, 2049, at 15:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
The path of annularity will be visible from parts of Peru, southern Ecuador, southern Colombia, northern Brazil, southern Venezuela, Guyana, northern Suriname, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, southwestern Mali, northern Guinea, southwestern Burkina Faso, northeastern Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, extreme northern Gabon, northern Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and western Tanzania. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Central America, the Caribbean, northern and central South America, the Southeastern United States, Africa, Southern Europe, and the Middle East.

## 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 31, 2049 Solar Eclipse Times :
| Event | Time (UTC) |
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2049 May 31 at 10:59:01.7 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2049 May 31 at 12:02:48.8 UTC |
| First Central Line | 2049 May 31 at 12:04:32.9 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2049 May 31 at 12:06:17.1 UTC |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 2049 May 31 at 13:10:53.8 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2049 May 31 at 13:59:23.1 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2049 May 31 at 13:59:58.8 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2049 May 31 at 14:01:22.0 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 2049 May 31 at 14:05:27.1 UTC |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 2049 May 31 at 14:49:03.8 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2049 May 31 at 15:53:39.3 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 2049 May 31 at 15:55:25.6 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2049 May 31 at 15:57:12.0 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2049 May 31 at 17:01:01.0 UTC |
May 31, 2049 Solar Eclipse Parameters :
| Parameter | Value |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.96312 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.92760 |
| Gamma | −0.11870 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 04h35m51.4s |
| Sun Declination | +22°01'26.4" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'46.5" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 04h35m52.6s |
| Moon Declination | +21°54'56.7" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 14'57.8" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°54'55.1" |
| ΔT | 83.7 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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
Eclipse season of May–June 2049 :
| May 17 Ascending node (full moon) | May 31 Descending node (new moon) | June 15 Ascending node (full moon) |
| Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 112 | Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 138 | Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 150 |

## Related eclipses
### Eclipses in 2049

* A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 17.
* An annular solar eclipse on May 31.
* A penumbral lunar eclipse on June 15.
* A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 9.
* A hybrid solar eclipse on November 25.

### Metonic

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 20, 2053

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 12, 2056

### Half-Saros

* Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 26, 2040
* Followed by: Lunar eclipse of June 6, 2058

### Tritos

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 2, 2038
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 30, 2060

### Solar Saros 138

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 21, 2031
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 11, 2067

### Inex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 21, 2020
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 2078

### Triad

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 1, 2136

### Solar eclipses of 2047–2050

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 26, 2047 and July 22, 2047 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2047 to 2050 :
| Descending node | Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma |
| 118 | June 23, 2047 Partial | 1.3766 | 123 | December 16, 2047 Partial | −1.0661 |
| 128 | June 11, 2048 Annular | 0.6468 | 133 | December 5, 2048 Total | −0.3973 |
| 138 | May 31, 2049 Annular | −0.1187 | 143 | November 25, 2049 Hybrid | 0.2943 |
| 148 | May 20, 2050 Hybrid | −0.8688 | 153 | November 14, 2050 Partial | 1.0447 |

### Saros 138

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482; a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500; and total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. 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 was produced by member 23 at 8 minutes, 2 seconds on February 11, 1869, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 61 at 56 seconds on April 3, 2554. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.
Series members 20–41 occur between 1801 and 2200: :
| 20 | 21 | 22 |
| January 10, 1815 | January 20, 1833 | February 1, 1851 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 |
| February 11, 1869 | February 22, 1887 | March 6, 1905 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 |
| March 17, 1923 | March 27, 1941 | April 8, 1959 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 |
| April 18, 1977 | April 29, 1995 | May 10, 2013 |
| 32 | 33 | 34 |
| May 21, 2031 | May 31, 2049 | June 11, 2067 |
| 35 | 36 | 37 |
| June 22, 2085 | July 4, 2103 | July 14, 2121 |
| 38 | 39 | 40 |
| July 25, 2139 | August 5, 2157 | August 16, 2175 |
| 41 |
| August 26, 2193 |

### 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.
22 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and October 24, 2098 :
| May 31–June 1 | March 19–20 | January 5–6 | October 24–25 | August 12–13 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| June 1, 2011 | March 20, 2015 | January 6, 2019 | October 25, 2022 | August 12, 2026 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| June 1, 2030 | March 20, 2034 | January 5, 2038 | October 25, 2041 | August 12, 2045 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| May 31, 2049 | March 20, 2053 | January 5, 2057 | October 24, 2060 | August 12, 2064 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
| May 31, 2068 | March 19, 2072 | January 6, 2076 | October 24, 2079 | August 13, 2083 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 |
| June 1, 2087 | | | October 24, 2098 |

### 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 :
| April 14, 1809 (Saros 116) | March 14, 1820 (Saros 117) | February 12, 1831 (Saros 118) | January 11, 1842 (Saros 119) | December 11, 1852 (Saros 120) |
| November 11, 1863 (Saros 121) | October 10, 1874 (Saros 122) | September 8, 1885 (Saros 123) | August 9, 1896 (Saros 124) | July 10, 1907 (Saros 125) |
| June 8, 1918 (Saros 126) | May 9, 1929 (Saros 127) | April 7, 1940 (Saros 128) | March 7, 1951 (Saros 129) | February 5, 1962 (Saros 130) |
| January 4, 1973 (Saros 131) | December 4, 1983 (Saros 132) | November 3, 1994 (Saros 133) | October 3, 2005 (Saros 134) | September 1, 2016 (Saros 135) |
| August 2, 2027 (Saros 136) | July 2, 2038 (Saros 137) | May 31, 2049 (Saros 138) | April 30, 2060 (Saros 139) | March 31, 2071 (Saros 140) |
| February 27, 2082 (Saros 141) | January 27, 2093 (Saros 142) | December 29, 2103 (Saros 143) | November 27, 2114 (Saros 144) | October 26, 2125 (Saros 145) |
| September 26, 2136 (Saros 146) | August 26, 2147 (Saros 147) | July 25, 2158 (Saros 148) | June 25, 2169 (Saros 149) | May 24, 2180 (Saros 150) |
| April 23, 2191 (Saros 151) |

### 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 :
| November 9, 1817 (Saros 130) | October 20, 1846 (Saros 131) | September 29, 1875 (Saros 132) |
| September 9, 1904 (Saros 133) | August 21, 1933 (Saros 134) | July 31, 1962 (Saros 135) |
| July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) | June 21, 2020 (Saros 137) | May 31, 2049 (Saros 138) |
| May 11, 2078 (Saros 139) | April 23, 2107 (Saros 140) | April 1, 2136 (Saros 141) |
| March 12, 2165 (Saros 142) | February 21, 2194 (Saros 143) | |