A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, November 26, 2076, with a magnitude of 0.7315. 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. This will be the last of four solar eclipses in 2076, with the others occurring on January 6, June 1, and July 1. The partial solar eclipse will be visible for parts of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and the Russian Far East.
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.
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.
Related eclipses
Eclipses in 2076 A total solar eclipse on January 6. A partial solar eclipse on June 1. A total lunar eclipse on June 17. A partial solar eclipse on July 1. A partial solar eclipse on November 26. A total lunar eclipse on December 10.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 7, 2073 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 13, 2080
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 15, 2069 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 7, 2084
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 21, 2067 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of December 1, 2085
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 27, 2065 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 26, 2087
Solar Saros 124 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 16, 2058 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 7, 2094
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 16, 2047 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 6, 2105
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 28, 2163
Solar eclipses of 2076–2079 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 January 6, 2076 and July 1, 2076 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Saros 124 This eclipse is a part of Saros series 124, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 6, 1049. It contains total eclipses from June 12, 1211 through September 22, 1968, and a hybrid eclipse on October 3, 1986. There are no annular eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on May 11, 2347. 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 totality was produced by member 39 at 5 minutes, 46 seconds on May 3, 1734. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.
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.
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. The partial solar eclipses on April 8, 1902 (part of Saros 108) and January 5, 1935 (part of Saros 111) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.
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.
References
External links Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC Besselian elements