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Future partial solar eclipse
A partial
solar eclipse
will occur on Sunday, April 21, 2069. 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.
Related eclipses
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Solar eclipses 2069?2072
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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.
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Saros 120
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This eclipse is a part of
Saros cycle 120
, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and reached an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and total eclipses from June 8, 1564, through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on
July 7, 2195
. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.
Series members 55?65 occur between 1901 and 2100
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55
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56
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57
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/SE1907Jan14T.png/150px-SE1907Jan14T.png) January 14, 1907
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/SE1925Jan24T.png/150px-SE1925Jan24T.png) January 24, 1925
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/SE1943Feb04T.png/150px-SE1943Feb04T.png) February 4, 1943
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58
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59
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60
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/SE1961Feb15T.png/150px-SE1961Feb15T.png) February 15, 1961
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/SE1979Feb26T.png/150px-SE1979Feb26T.png) February 26, 1979
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/SE1997Mar09T.png/150px-SE1997Mar09T.png) March 9, 1997
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61
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62
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63
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/SE2015Mar20T.png/150px-SE2015Mar20T.png) March 20, 2015
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SE2033Mar30T.png/150px-SE2033Mar30T.png) March 30, 2033
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/SE2051Apr11P.png/150px-SE2051Apr11P.png) April 11, 2051
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64
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65
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/SE2069Apr21P.png/150px-SE2069Apr21P.png) April 21, 2069
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/SE2087May02P.png/150px-SE2087May02P.png) May 2, 2087
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Features
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Lists of eclipses
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![21 August 2017 total solar eclipse](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Solar_eclipse%2C_Miles_Landing_8-21-17_%2836842678271%29.jpg/80px-Solar_eclipse%2C_Miles_Landing_8-21-17_%2836842678271%29.jpg) Total/hybrid eclipses
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![10 May 2013 annular eclipse](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Annular_Solar_Eclipse_May_10_2013_Northern_Territory_Australia.JPG/80px-Annular_Solar_Eclipse_May_10_2013_Northern_Territory_Australia.JPG) Annular eclipses
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![23 October 2014 partial eclipse](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Partial_solar_eclipse_Oct_23_2014_Minneapolis_5-36pm_Ruen1.png/80px-Partial_solar_eclipse_Oct_23_2014_Minneapolis_5-36pm_Ruen1.png) Partial eclipses
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