# Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033

A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, March 30, 2033, with a magnitude of 1.0462. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's 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 kilometres wide. Occurring about 11 hours after perigee (on March 30, 2033, at 7:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.
Totality will be visible from parts of the Russian Far East and Alaska, including in the cities of Nome, Alaska and Utqiaġvik, Alaska in the mid-morning hours. A partial eclipse will be visible for parts of eastern Russia, Hawaii, North America, Greenland, and Iceland. This will be the last of 55 umbral eclipses in Solar Saros 120.

## Images

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## Details of totality in some places or cities

Solar Eclipse of March 30 and March 31, 2033 :
| Country or Territory | Place or City | Start of partial eclipse (Local Time) | Start of total eclipse (Local Time) | End of total eclipse (Local Time) | Duration of total eclipse | End of partial eclipse (Local Time) | Magnitude |
| United States | Gambell, Alaska | 08:57:55 (sunrise) | 09:44:22 | 09:46:40 | 2 min 18s | 10:42:15 | 1,044 |
| United States | Nome, Alaska | 08:51:53 | 09:46:05 | 09:48:35 | 2 min 30s | 10:45:17 | 1,045 |
| Russia | Anadyr, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | 05:39:24 (sunrise) (March 31) | 06:47:12 (March 31) | 06:48:01 (March 31) | 50 s | 07:42:27 (March 31) | 1,043 |
| Russia | Uelen, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | 05:55:06 (March 31) | 06:48:57 (March 31) | 06:50:55 (March 31) | 1 min 58 s | 07:47:02 (March 31) | 1,045 |
| United States | Kotzebue, Alaska | 08:56:01 | 09:50:48 | 09:53:19 | 2 min 31s | 10:50:25 | 1,046 |
| United States | Utqiagvik, Alaska | 09:04:08 | 09:59:46 | 10:02:22 | 2 min 36s | 10:59:52 | 1,046 |

## 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.
March 30, 2033 Solar Eclipse Times :
| Event | Time (UTC) |
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2033 March 30 at 16:00:45.9 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2033 March 30 at 17:37:02.7 UTC |
| First Central Line | 2033 March 30 at 17:42:17.4 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2033 March 30 at 17:49:24.8 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2033 March 30 at 17:52:49.1 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 2033 March 30 at 18:02:19.5 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2033 March 30 at 18:02:35.7 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2033 March 30 at 18:15:23.7 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 2033 March 30 at 18:22:30.8 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2033 March 30 at 18:27:45.2 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2033 March 30 at 18:34:26.6 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2033 March 30 at 20:04:11.4 UTC |
March 30, 2033 Solar Eclipse Parameters :
| Parameter | Value |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.04616 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.09444 |
| Gamma | 0.97777 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 00h38m02.8s |
| Sun Declination | +04°05'47.8" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'00.8" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.8" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 00h36m50.4s |
| Moon Declination | +05°02'48.6" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'42.2" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 1°01'18.3" |
| ΔT | 75.3 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 March–April 2033 :
| March 30 Descending node (new moon) | April 14 Ascending node (full moon) |
| Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 120 | Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 132 |

## Related eclipses
### Eclipses in 2033

* A total solar eclipse on March 30.
* A total lunar eclipse on April 14.
* A partial solar eclipse on September 23.
* A total lunar eclipse on October 8.

### Metonic

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 12, 2029
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 2037

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 17, 2026
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 2040

### Half-Saros

* Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 25, 2024
* Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 5, 2042

### Tritos

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 30, 2022
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044

### Solar Saros 120

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 11, 2051

### Inex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 19, 2004
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 11, 2062

### Triad

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 30, 1946
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 30, 2120

### Solar eclipses of 2033–2036

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 eclipse on July 23, 2036 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2033 to 2036 :
| Descending node | Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma |
| 120 | March 30, 2033 Total | 0.9778 | 125 | September 23, 2033 Partial | −1.1583 |
| 130 | March 20, 2034 Total | 0.2894 | 135 | September 12, 2034 Annular | −0.3936 |
| 140 | March 9, 2035 Annular | −0.4368 | 145 | September 2, 2035 Total | 0.3727 |
| 150 | February 27, 2036 Partial | −1.1942 | 155 | August 21, 2036 Partial | 1.0825 |

### Saros 120

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD. It contains annular eclipses from August 11, 1059 through April 26, 1492; hybrid eclipses from May 8, 1510 through June 8, 1564; and total eclipses from June 20, 1582 through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. 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 11 at 6 minutes, 24 seconds on September 11, 1113, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 60 at 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.
Series members 50–71 occur between 1801 and 2195: :
| 50 | 51 | 52 |
| November 19, 1816 | November 30, 1834 | December 11, 1852 |
| 53 | 54 | 55 |
| December 22, 1870 | January 1, 1889 | January 14, 1907 |
| 56 | 57 | 58 |
| January 24, 1925 | February 4, 1943 | February 15, 1961 |
| 59 | 60 | 61 |
| February 26, 1979 | March 9, 1997 | March 20, 2015 |
| 62 | 63 | 64 |
| March 30, 2033 | April 11, 2051 | April 21, 2069 |
| 65 | 66 | 67 |
| May 2, 2087 | May 14, 2105 | May 25, 2123 |
| 68 | 69 | 70 |
| June 4, 2141 | June 16, 2159 | June 26, 2177 |
| 71 |
| July 7, 2195 |

### 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 12, 2029 and November 4, 2116 :
| June 11–12 | March 30–31 | January 16 | November 4–5 | August 23–24 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| June 12, 2029 | March 30, 2033 | January 16, 2037 | November 4, 2040 | August 23, 2044 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| June 11, 2048 | March 30, 2052 | January 16, 2056 | November 5, 2059 | August 24, 2063 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| June 11, 2067 | March 31, 2071 | January 16, 2075 | November 4, 2078 | August 24, 2082 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
| June 11, 2086 | March 31, 2090 | January 16, 2094 | November 4, 2097 | August 24, 2101 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 |
| June 12, 2105 | | | November 4, 2116 |

### 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.
The partial solar eclipses on April 8, 1902 (part of Saros 108) and January 5, 1935 (part of Saros 111) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.
Series members between 2000 and 2200 :
| July 1, 2000 (Saros 117) | June 1, 2011 (Saros 118) | April 30, 2022 (Saros 119) | March 30, 2033 (Saros 120) | February 28, 2044 (Saros 121) |
| January 27, 2055 (Saros 122) | December 27, 2065 (Saros 123) | November 26, 2076 (Saros 124) | October 26, 2087 (Saros 125) | September 25, 2098 (Saros 126) |
| August 26, 2109 (Saros 127) | July 25, 2120 (Saros 128) | June 25, 2131 (Saros 129) | May 25, 2142 (Saros 130) | April 23, 2153 (Saros 131) |
| March 23, 2164 (Saros 132) | February 21, 2175 (Saros 133) | January 20, 2186 (Saros 134) | December 19, 2196 (Saros 135) |

### 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 8, 1801 (Saros 112) | August 18, 1830 (Saros 113) | July 29, 1859 (Saros 114) |
| July 9, 1888 (Saros 115) | June 19, 1917 (Saros 116) | May 30, 1946 (Saros 117) |
| May 11, 1975 (Saros 118) | April 19, 2004 (Saros 119) | March 30, 2033 (Saros 120) |
| March 11, 2062 (Saros 121) | February 18, 2091 (Saros 122) | January 30, 2120 (Saros 123) |
| January 9, 2149 (Saros 124) | December 20, 2177 (Saros 125) | |