| Total eclipse | |
 Map | |
| Gamma | 0.2771 |
|---|---|
| Magnitude | 1.075 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 349 s (5 min 49 s) |
| Coordinates | 25°36′N168°24′E / 25.6°N 168.4°E /25.6; 168.4 |
| Max. width of band | 252 km (157 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 1:22:11 |
| References | |
| Saros | 136 (40 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9649 |
A totalsolar eclipse will occur at the Moon'sdescending node of orbit between Thursday, August 23 and Friday, August 24, 2063,[1] with amagnitude of 1.075. Asolar eclipse occurs when theMoon passes betweenEarth and theSun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon'sapparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 2.5 hours beforeperigee (on August 24, 2063, at 3:50 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2] Perigee did occur near the very end of this eclipse.
The path of totality will be visible from parts of northernChina,Mongolia, the northeastern tip ofNorth Korea, southernPrimorsky Krai ofRussia, northernJapan, and parts ofFrench Polynesia. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts ofEast Asia,North Asia,Hawaii, andOceania.
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.[3]
| Event | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2063 August 23 at 22:47:34.7 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2063 August 23 at 23:42:04.1 UTC |
| First Central Line | 2063 August 23 at 23:43:38.1 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2063 August 23 at 23:45:12.3 UTC |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 2063 August 24 at 00:43:41.8 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2063 August 24 at 01:08:02.8 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 2063 August 24 at 01:17:30.5 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2063 August 24 at 01:19:21.7 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2063 August 24 at 01:22:10.6 UTC |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 2063 August 24 at 02:00:58.2 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2063 August 24 at 02:59:17.7 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 2063 August 24 at 03:00:51.8 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2063 August 24 at 03:02:25.7 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2063 August 24 at 03:56:52.1 UTC |
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.07497 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.15557 |
| Gamma | 0.27715 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 10h12m03.7s |
| Sun Declination | +11°07'34.9" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'48.9" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 10h12m34.5s |
| Moon Declination | +11°22'46.8" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'43.4" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 1°01'22.6" |
| ΔT | 92.9 s |
This eclipse is part of aneclipse 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 afortnight.
| August 24 Descending node (new moon) | September 7 Ascending node (full moon) |
|---|---|
| |
| Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 136 | Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 148 |
This eclipse is a member of asemester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternatingnodes of the Moon's orbit.[4]
The partial solar eclipses onJuly 3, 2065 andDecember 27, 2065 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 2062 to 2065 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 121 | March 11, 2062 Partial | −1.0238 | 126 | September 3, 2062 Partial | 1.0191 | |
| 131 | February 28, 2063 Annular | −0.336 | 136 | August 24, 2063 Total | 0.2771 | |
| 141 | February 17, 2064 Annular | 0.3597 | 146 | August 12, 2064 Total | −0.4652 | |
| 151 | February 5, 2065 Partial | 1.0336 | 156 | August 2, 2065 Partial | −1.2759 | |
This eclipse is a part ofSaros series 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 14, 1360. It contains annular eclipses from September 8, 1504 through November 12, 1594; hybrid eclipses from November 22, 1612 through January 17, 1703; and total eclipses from January 27, 1721 through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is oneexeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 9 at 32 seconds on September 8, 1504, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 34 at 7 minutes, 7.74 seconds onJune 20, 1955. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’sdescending node of orbit.[5]
| Series members 26–47 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 26 | 27 | 28 |
 March 24, 1811 |  April 3, 1829 |  April 15, 1847 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 |
 April 25, 1865 |  May 6, 1883 |  May 18, 1901 |
| 32 | 33 | 34 |
 May 29, 1919 |  June 8, 1937 |  June 20, 1955 |
| 35 | 36 | 37 |
 June 30, 1973 |  July 11, 1991 |  July 22, 2009 |
| 38 | 39 | 40 |
 August 2, 2027 |  August 12, 2045 | August 24, 2063 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 |
 September 3, 2081 |  September 14, 2099 |  September 26, 2117 |
| 44 | 45 | 46 |
 October 7, 2135 |  October 17, 2153 |  October 29, 2171 |
| 47 | ||
 November 8, 2189 | ||
Themetonic 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 June 12, 2029 and November 4, 2116 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 11–12 | March 30–31 | January 16 | November 4–5 | August 23–24 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
 June 12, 2029 |  March 30, 2033 |  January 16, 2037 |  November 4, 2040 |  August 23, 2044 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
 June 11, 2048 |  March 30, 2052 |  January 16, 2056 |  November 5, 2059 | August 24, 2063 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
 June 11, 2067 |  March 31, 2071 |  January 16, 2075 |  November 4, 2078 |  August 24, 2082 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
 June 11, 2086 |  March 31, 2090 |  January 16, 2094 |  November 4, 2097 |  August 24, 2101 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | |
 June 12, 2105 |  November 4, 2116 | |||
This eclipse is a part of atritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with theanomalistic 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.
| Series members between 1801 and 2200 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 September 8, 1801 (Saros 112) |  August 7, 1812 (Saros 113) |  July 8, 1823 (Saros 114) |  June 7, 1834 (Saros 115) |  May 6, 1845 (Saros 116) |
 April 5, 1856 (Saros 117) |  March 6, 1867 (Saros 118) |  February 2, 1878 (Saros 119) |  January 1, 1889 (Saros 120) |  December 3, 1899 (Saros 121) |
 November 2, 1910 (Saros 122) |  October 1, 1921 (Saros 123) |  August 31, 1932 (Saros 124) |  August 1, 1943 (Saros 125) |  June 30, 1954 (Saros 126) |
 May 30, 1965 (Saros 127) |  April 29, 1976 (Saros 128) |  March 29, 1987 (Saros 129) |  February 26, 1998 (Saros 130) |  January 26, 2009 (Saros 131) |
 December 26, 2019 (Saros 132) |  November 25, 2030 (Saros 133) |  October 25, 2041 (Saros 134) |  September 22, 2052 (Saros 135) | August 24, 2063 (Saros 136) |
 July 24, 2074 (Saros 137) |  June 22, 2085 (Saros 138) |  May 22, 2096 (Saros 139) |  April 23, 2107 (Saros 140) |  March 22, 2118 (Saros 141) |
 February 18, 2129 (Saros 142) |  January 20, 2140 (Saros 143) |  December 19, 2150 (Saros 144) |  November 17, 2161 (Saros 145) |  October 17, 2172 (Saros 146) |
 September 16, 2183 (Saros 147) |  August 16, 2194 (Saros 148) | |||
This eclipse is a part of the long periodinex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with theanomalistic 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.
| Series members between 1801 and 2200 | ||
|---|---|---|
 February 21, 1803 (Saros 127) |  February 1, 1832 (Saros 128) |  January 11, 1861 (Saros 129) |
 December 22, 1889 (Saros 130) |  December 3, 1918 (Saros 131) |  November 12, 1947 (Saros 132) |
 October 23, 1976 (Saros 133) |  October 3, 2005 (Saros 134) |  September 12, 2034 (Saros 135) |
August 24, 2063 (Saros 136) |  August 3, 2092 (Saros 137) |  July 14, 2121 (Saros 138) |
 June 25, 2150 (Saros 139) |  June 5, 2179 (Saros 140) | |
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