Solar eclipse of February 5, 2000

• A total lunar eclipse on January 21.
• A partial solar eclipse on February 5.
• A partial solar eclipse on July 1.
• A total lunar eclipse on July 16.
• A partial solar eclipse on July 31.
• A partial solar eclipse on December 25.

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 1997–2000
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
120 Chita, Russia	1997 March 9 Total	0.91830		125	1997 September 2 Partial	-1.03521
130 Total eclipse near Guadelope	1998 February 26 Total	0.23909		135	1998 August 22 Annular	-0.26441
140	1999 February 16 Annular	-0.47260		145 Totality from France	1999 August 11 Total	0.50623
150	2000 February 5 Partial	-1.22325		155	2000 July 31 Partial	1.21664
Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

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 September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011.
September 11-12	June 30-July 1	April 17-19	February 4-5	November 22-23
114	116	118	120	122
September 12, 1931	June 30, 1935	April 19, 1939	February 4, 1943	November 23, 1946
124	126	128	130	132
September 12, 1950	June 30, 1954	April 19, 1958	February 5, 1962	November 23, 1965
134	136	138	140	142
September 11, 1969	June 30, 1973	April 18, 1977	February 4, 1981	November 22, 1984
144	146	148	150	152
September 11, 1988	June 30, 1992	April 17, 1996	February 5, 2000	November 23, 2003
154	156	158	160	162
September 11, 2007	July 1, 2011	April 18, 2015	February 4, 2019	November 23, 2022