# Solar eclipse of February 5, 2046

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Monday, February 5 and Tuesday, February 6, 2046, with a magnitude of 0.9232. 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 2.25 days before apogee (on February 8, 2046, at 5:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.
The path of annularity will be visible from parts of eastern Indonesia (specifically Western New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Hawaii, and California, Oregon, Nevada, and Idaho in the United States. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Oceania, and western North America.

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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.
February 5, 2046 Solar Eclipse Times :
| Event | Time (UTC) |
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2046 February 05 at 20:05:17.8 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2046 February 05 at 21:13:07.7 UTC |
| First Central Line | 2046 February 05 at 21:16:34.4 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2046 February 05 at 21:20:02.1 UTC |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 2046 February 05 at 22:42:57.6 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 2046 February 05 at 22:50:22.5 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2046 February 05 at 23:06:26.2 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2046 February 05 at 23:10:57.3 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2046 February 05 at 23:25:48.6 UTC |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 2046 February 05 at 23:29:25.4 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2046 February 05 at 00:52:36.8 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 2046 February 05 at 00:56:06.1 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2046 February 05 at 00:59:34.4 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2046 February 05 at 02:07:29.5 UTC |
February 5, 2046 Solar Eclipse Parameters :
| Parameter | Value |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.92321 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.85231 |
| Gamma | 0.37654 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 21h19m00.8s |
| Sun Declination | -15°38'42.4" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'13.2" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 21h18m27.2s |
| Moon Declination | -15°20'02.1" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 14'46.0" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°54'11.7" |
| ΔT | 81.8 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 January–February 2046 :
| January 22 Descending node (full moon) | February 5 Ascending node (new moon) |
| Partial lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 115 | Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 141 |

## Related eclipses
### Eclipses in 2046

* A partial lunar eclipse on January 22.
* An annular solar eclipse on February 5.
* A partial lunar eclipse on July 18.
* A total solar eclipse on August 2.

### Metonic

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 25, 2049

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 26, 2038
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 20, 2053

### Half-Saros

* Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of January 31, 2037
* Followed by: Lunar eclipse of February 11, 2055

### Tritos

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 9, 2035
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 5, 2057

### Solar Saros 141

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 26, 2028
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 17, 2064

### Inex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 26, 2017
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 2075

### Triad

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 8, 1959
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 7, 2132

### Solar eclipses of 2044–2047

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 June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2044 to 2047 :
| Ascending node | Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node | Descending node |
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma |
| 121 | February 28, 2044 Annular | −0.9954 | 126 | August 23, 2044 Total | 0.9613 |
| 131 | February 16, 2045 Annular | −0.3125 | 136 | August 12, 2045 Total | 0.2116 |
| 141 | February 5, 2046 Annular | 0.3765 | 146 | August 2, 2046 Total | −0.535 |
| 151 | January 26, 2047 Partial | 1.045 | 156 | July 22, 2047 Partial | −1.3477 |

### Saros 141

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 141, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains annular eclipses from August 4, 1739 through October 14, 2640. There are no hybrid or total eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. 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 20 at 12 minutes, 9 seconds on December 14, 1955. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.
Series members 12–33 occur between 1801 and 2200: :
| 12 | 13 | 14 |
| September 17, 1811 | September 28, 1829 | October 9, 1847 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 |
| October 19, 1865 | October 30, 1883 | November 11, 1901 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 |
| November 22, 1919 | December 2, 1937 | December 14, 1955 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 |
| December 24, 1973 | January 4, 1992 | January 15, 2010 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 |
| January 26, 2028 | February 5, 2046 | February 17, 2064 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 |
| February 27, 2082 | March 10, 2100 | March 22, 2118 |
| 30 | 31 | 32 |
| April 1, 2136 | April 12, 2154 | April 23, 2172 |
| 33 |
| May 4, 2190 |

### 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 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 |
| July 1, 2076 |

### 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 :
| December 21, 1805 (Saros 119) | November 19, 1816 (Saros 120) | October 20, 1827 (Saros 121) | September 18, 1838 (Saros 122) | August 18, 1849 (Saros 123) |
| July 18, 1860 (Saros 124) | June 18, 1871 (Saros 125) | May 17, 1882 (Saros 126) | April 16, 1893 (Saros 127) | March 17, 1904 (Saros 128) |
| February 14, 1915 (Saros 129) | January 14, 1926 (Saros 130) | December 13, 1936 (Saros 131) | November 12, 1947 (Saros 132) | October 12, 1958 (Saros 133) |
| September 11, 1969 (Saros 134) | August 10, 1980 (Saros 135) | July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) | June 10, 2002 (Saros 137) | May 10, 2013 (Saros 138) |
| April 8, 2024 (Saros 139) | March 9, 2035 (Saros 140) | February 5, 2046 (Saros 141) | January 5, 2057 (Saros 142) | December 6, 2067 (Saros 143) |
| November 4, 2078 (Saros 144) | October 4, 2089 (Saros 145) | September 4, 2100 (Saros 146) | August 4, 2111 (Saros 147) | July 4, 2122 (Saros 148) |
| June 3, 2133 (Saros 149) | May 3, 2144 (Saros 150) | April 2, 2155 (Saros 151) | March 2, 2166 (Saros 152) | January 29, 2177 (Saros 153) |
| December 29, 2187 (Saros 154) | November 28, 2198 (Saros 155) |

### 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 :
| July 17, 1814 (Saros 133) | June 27, 1843 (Saros 134) | June 6, 1872 (Saros 135) |
| May 18, 1901 (Saros 136) | April 28, 1930 (Saros 137) | April 8, 1959 (Saros 138) |
| March 18, 1988 (Saros 139) | February 26, 2017 (Saros 140) | February 5, 2046 (Saros 141) |
| January 16, 2075 (Saros 142) | December 29, 2103 (Saros 143) | December 7, 2132 (Saros 144) |
| November 17, 2161 (Saros 145) | October 29, 2190 (Saros 146) | |