Solar eclipse of September 13, 2015

21st-century partial solar eclipse

72°06′S 2°18′W / 72.1°S 2.3°W / -72.1; -2.3Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse6:55:19ReferencesSaros125 (54 of 73)Catalog # (SE5000)9542

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, September 13, 2015,^[1]^[2]^[3] with a magnitude of 0.7875. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

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Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2015

A total solar eclipse on March 20.
A total lunar eclipse on April 4.
A partial solar eclipse on September 13.
A total lunar eclipse on September 28.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 25, 2011
Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 1, 2008
Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 25, 2022

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 7, 2006
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 18, 2024

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 12, 1928
Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 15, 2102

Solar eclipses of 2015–2018

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.^[4]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2015 to 2018
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
Descending node			Ascending node
120 Longyearbyen, Svalbard	2015 March 20 Total	0.94536	125 Solar Dynamics Observatory	2015 September 13 Partial (south)	−1.10039
130 Balikpapan, Indonesia	2016 March 9 Total	0.26092	135 L'Étang-Salé, Réunion	2016 September 1 Annular	−0.33301
140 Partial from Buenos Aires	2017 February 26 Annular	−0.45780	145 Casper, Wyoming	2017 August 21 Total	0.43671
150 Partial from Olivos, Buenos Aires	2018 February 15 Partial (south)	−1.21163	155 Partial from Huittinen, Finland	2018 August 11 Partial (north)	1.14758

Partial solar eclipses on July 13, 2018, and January 6, 2019, occur during the next semester series.

Saros 125

It is a part of Saros cycle 125, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on February 4, 1060. It contains total eclipses from June 13, 1276 through July 16, 1330, hybrid eclipses on July 26, 1348 and August 7, 1366, and annular eclipses from August 17, 1384 through August 22, 1979. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on April 9, 2358. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 11 seconds on June 25, 1294, and the longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 23 seconds on July 10, 1907.

Series members 48–64 occur between 1900 and 2200:
48	49	50
July 10, 1907	July 20, 1925	August 1, 1943
51	52	53
August 11, 1961	August 22, 1979	September 2, 1997
54	55	56
September 13, 2015	September 23, 2033	October 4, 2051
57	58	59
October 15, 2069	October 26, 2087	November 6, 2105
60	61	62
November 18, 2123	November 28, 2141	December 9, 2159
63	64
December 20, 2177	December 31, 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 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

References

^ Orwig, Jessica. "A NASA video shows what a total lunar eclipse looks like from the moon, and it's mind-blowing". Business Insider.
^ European Space Agency. "Image: Proba-2 captures partial solar eclipse". phys.org.
^ Wall, Mike (September 12, 2015). "Watch Sunday's Partial Solar Eclipse Live in Slooh Webcast". Space.com.
^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)