Saros cycle series 136 forsolar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descendingnode, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 eclipses, 56 of which are umbral (6 annular, 6 hybrid, 44 total). The first eclipse in the series was on 14 June 1360 and the last will be on 30 July 2622. The most recent eclipse was a total eclipse on22 July 2009 and the next will be a total eclipse on2 August 2027.

The longest totality was 7 minutes 7.74 seconds on20 June 1955 (also the longest total eclipse of the 20th century) while the longest annular eclipse was just 32 seconds on 8 September 1504.

This series is currently producing the longest total solar eclipses of any active series. It produced the six longest total solar eclipses of the 20th century, three of them over seven minutes long.^[1] It also produced thelongest total eclipse of the 21st century at 6 min 38.86 sec on 22 July 2009, and overall will produce the 21st century's three longest total eclipses. Each eclipse is getting slightly shorter and this series will be surpassed in total eclipse length bySolar Saros 139 (whose eclipses are getting slightly longer) onMay 11, 2078.^[2] Saros 136 in turn surpassed the previous longest-eclipse series,Saros 133, with its member event onMay 18th, 1901. It produced themost central total eclipse between the years 1209 and 2718 and the greatestmagnitude of any eclipse since the year 540 onJuly 11, 1991.

This solar saros is linked toLunar Saros 129.

Umbral eclipses (annular, total and hybrid) can be further classified as either: 1) Central (two limits), 2) Central (one limit) or 3) Non-Central (one limit). The statistical distribution of these classes in Saros series 136 appears in the following table.

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  April 25, 1865.
  Series member 29
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  An artist's depiction of the totalsolar eclipse of May 6, 1883, observed fromCaroline Atoll, Line Islands.^[3]
  Series member 30
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  The totalsolar eclipse of May 29, 1919, observed from the island ofPrincipe. Positions of star images within the field near the Sun were used to verify Albert Einstein's prediction of the bending of light around the Sun from hisgeneral theory of relativity.
  Series member 32
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  Totalsolar eclipse of July 11, 1991 fromCosta Rica.
  Series member 36
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  Totalsolar eclipse of July 22, 2009 fromBangladesh.
  Series member 37

Note: Dates are given in theJulian calendar prior to 15 October 1582, and in theGregorian calendar after that.

• Saros cycle 136 - Information and visualization

• Solar saros series

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