Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018

Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018
	From Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	-1.2116
Magnitude	0.5991
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	71°S 0.6°E
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:52:33
References
Saros	150 (17 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9547

A partial solar eclipse took place on February 15, 2018. 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.

The eclipse took place before sunset in the Southern Cone of South America.

Images

Animated path

Gallery

Time lapse images as viewed from Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
From Ramos Mejía, Argentina, 22:13 UTC

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2018

Solar eclipses descending node 2015-2018

Solar eclipses 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.[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2015–2018
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
120 Longyearbyen, Svalbard	2015 March 20 Total	0.9453	125	2015 September 13 Partial	-1.1004
130 Balikpapan, Indonesia	2016 March 9 Total	0.2609	135 L'Étang-Salé, Réunion	2016 September 1 Annular	-0.3330
140 Partial from Buenos Aires	2017 February 26 Annular	-0.4578	145 Casper, Wyoming	2017 August 21 Total	0.4367
150 Partial from Olivos, Buenos Aires	2018 February 15 Partial	-1.2117	155 Partial from Huittinen, Finland	2018 August 11 Partial	1.1476
Partial solar eclipses on July 13, 2018, and January 6, 2019, occur during the next semester series.

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, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12	April 29–30	February 15–16	December 4–5	September 21–23
96	98	100	102	104
July 12, 1915	April 30, 1919	February 15, 1923	December 5, 1926	September 22, 1930
106	108	110	112	114
July 11, 1934	April 30, 1938	February 15, 1942	December 4, 1945	September 22, 1949
116	118	120	122	124
July 11, 1953	April 30, 1957	February 15, 1961	December 4, 1964	September 22, 1968
126	128	130	132	134
July 10, 1972	April 29, 1976	February 16, 1980	December 4, 1983	September 23, 1987
136	138	140	142	144
July 11, 1991	April 29, 1995	February 16, 1999	December 4, 2002	September 22, 2006
146	148	150	152	154
July 11, 2010	April 29, 2014	February 15, 2018	December 4, 2021	September 21, 2025
156	158	160	162	164
July 11, 2029	April 29, 2033	February 15, 2037	December 4, 2040	September 21, 2044

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.

External links

NASA chart
NASA animation
Partial Solar Eclipse of 2018 February 15
APOD 2/20/2018

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[1] 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.