| Total eclipse | |
 Map | |
| Gamma | −0.3973 |
|---|---|
| Magnitude | 1.044 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 208 s (3 min 28 s) |
| Coordinates | 46°06′S56°24′W / 46.1°S 56.4°W /-46.1; -56.4 |
| Max. width of band | 160 km (99 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 15:35:27 |
| References | |
| Saros | 133 (47 of 72) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9616 |
A totalsolar eclipse will occur at the Moon'sascending node of orbit on Saturday, December 5, 2048,[1] with amagnitude of 1.044. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon'sapparent diameter is greater than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight. 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 16.5 hours beforeperigee (on December 6, 2048, at 8:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]
The path of totality will be visible from parts ofChile,Argentina,Namibia, andBotswana. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of southern and centralSouth America,Antarctica, andSouthern Africa.
Animated path
| Country or territory | City or place | Start of partial eclipse | Start of total eclipse | Maximum eclipse | End of total eclipse | End of partial eclipse | Duration of totality (min:s) | Duration of eclipse (hr:min) | Maximum magnitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina | Facundo | 10:54:13 | 12:08:48 | 12:10:01 | 12:11:14 | 13:29:59 | 2:26 | 2:36 | 1.007 |
| Argentina | Comodoro Rivadavia | 10:58:07 | 12:13:53 | 12:14:37 | 12:15:21 | 13:34:37 | 1:28 | 2:37 | 1.0023 |
| Argentina | Camarones | 10:59:17 | 12:16:10 | 12:17:00 | 12:17:50 | 13:37:57 | 1:40 | 2:39 | 1.0032 |
 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Edinburgh of the Seven Seas | 15:37:55 | 16:46:40 | 16:47:55 | 16:49:08 | 17:50:45 | 2:28 | 2:13 | 1.0189 |
| References:[1] | |||||||||
| Country or territory | City or place | Start of partial eclipse | Maximum eclipse | End of partial eclipse | Duration of eclipse (hr:min) | Maximum coverage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pitcairn Islands | Adamstown | 05:42:32 (sunrise) | 06:03:01 | 06:57:26 | 1:15 | 90.11% | |||
 Chile | Easter Island | 08:07:37 | 09:04:55 | 10:08:46 | 2:01 | 91.86% | |||
 French Polynesia | Gambier Islands | 05:05:55 (sunrise) | 05:08:31 | 05:55:30 | 0:50 | 83.39% | |||
| Chile | Santiago | 10:42:06 | 11:57:58 | 13:20:35 | 2:38 | 61.05% | |||
 Paraguay | Asunción | 11:16:24 | 12:27:46 | 13:40:25 | 2:24 | 24.12% | |||
| Argentina | Buenos Aires | 11:06:43 | 12:28:07 | 13:51:01 | 2:44 | 58.50% | |||
 Falkland Islands | Stanley | 11:18:02 | 12:32:39 | 13:47:43 | 2:30 | 82.69% | |||
 Uruguay | Montevideo | 11:11:36 | 12:33:45 | 13:56:14 | 2:45 | 59.28% | |||
 Brazil | Pelotas | 11:22:41 | 12:44:01 | 14:03:36 | 2:41 | 47.05% | |||
| Brazil | Rio Grande | 11:23:04 | 12:44:39 | 14:04:19 | 2:41 | 48.08% | |||
 Antarctica | Orcadas Base | 11:43:37 | 12:47:37 | 13:50:28 | 2:07 | 50.90% | |||
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | King Edward Point | 12:50:24 | 14:01:06 | 15:08:46 | 2:18 | 69.02% | |||
| Brazil | São Paulo | 11:54:22 | 13:03:51 | 14:09:02 | 2:15 | 19.99% | |||
| Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | 12:06:01 | 13:14:30 | 14:17:32 | 2:12 | 20.03% | |||
 Mozambique | Maputo | 18:11:42 | 18:28:38 | 18:31:17 (sunset) | 0:20 | 20.98% | |||
 Eswatini | Mbabane | 18:11:41 | 18:29:40 | 18:37:45 (sunset) | 0:26 | 22.65% | |||
 Bouvet Island | Bouvet Island | 16:37:40 | 17:30:20 | 18:20:06 | 1:42 | 38.61% | |||
 Zambia | Mongu | 18:21:35 | 18:45:40 | 18:48:07 (sunset) | 0:27 | 33.55% | |||
 South Africa | Johannesburg | 18:12:05 | 18:47:13 | 18:49:53 (sunset) | 0:38 | 57.17% | |||
 Botswana | Gaborone | 18:13:23 | 18:52:32 | 18:55:10 (sunset) | 0:42 | 67.36% | |||
 Lesotho | Maseru | 18:09:53 | 18:56:15 | 18:59:02 (sunset) | 0:49 | 70.80% | |||
| South Africa | Cape Town | 18:04:55 | 18:58:52 | 19:46:30 (sunset) | 1:42 | 71.30% | |||
| Botswana | Ghanzi | 18:16:02 | 19:03:40 | 19:06:13 (sunset) | 0:50 | 88.20% | |||
 Angola | Menongue | 17:23:11 | 18:05:43 | 18:08:46 (sunset) | 0:46 | 63.78% | |||
| Botswana | Tshane | 18:14:01 | 19:07:24 | 19:10:01 (sunset) | 0:56 | 96.01% | |||
 Namibia | Windhoek | 18:15:08 | 19:10:05 | 19:26:15 (sunset) | 1:11 | 97.85% | |||
| Angola | Huambo | 17:25:34 | 18:10:45 | 18:13:17 (sunset) | 0:48 | 60.01% | |||
| Angola | Luanda | 17:31:04 | 18:13:33 | 18:16:25 (sunset) | 0:45 | 44.30% | |||
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Jamestown | 16:18:30 | 17:15:29 | 18:06:41 | 1:48 | 42.50% | |||
| Angola | Lubango | 17:23:19 | 18:16:43 | 18:26:03 (sunset) | 1:03 | 67.23% | |||
| References:[1] | |||||||||
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 | 2048 December 5 at 13:01:48.0 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2048 December 5 at 13:59:50.8 UTC |
| First Central Line | 2048 December 5 at 14:00:39.2 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2048 December 5 at 14:01:27.6 UTC |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 2048 December 5 at 15:11:41.9 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2048 December 5 at 15:31:22.2 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2048 December 5 at 15:35:26.7 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 2048 December 5 at 15:36:11.2 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2048 December 5 at 15:36:12.8 UTC |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 2048 December 5 at 15:59:10.8 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2048 December 5 at 17:09:24.3 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 2048 December 5 at 17:10:13.5 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2048 December 5 at 17:11:02.7 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2048 December 5 at 18:09:03.3 UTC |
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.04400 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.08994 |
| Gamma | −0.39728 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 16h51m20.5s |
| Sun Declination | -22°29'40.9" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'13.8" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 16h51m18.6s |
| Moon Declination | -22°53'56.4" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'40.9" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 1°01'13.3" |
| ΔT | 83.5 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.
| December 5 Ascending node (new moon) | December 20 Descending node (full moon) |
|---|---|
|  |
| Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 133 | Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 145 |
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 onJanuary 26, 2047 andJuly 22, 2047 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 2047 to 2050 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 118 | June 23, 2047 Partial | 1.3766 | 123 | December 16, 2047 Partial | −1.0661 | |
| 128 | June 11, 2048 Annular | 0.6468 | 133 | December 5, 2048 Total | −0.3973 | |
| 138 | May 31, 2049 Annular | −0.1187 | 143 | November 25, 2049 Hybrid | 0.2943 | |
| 148 | May 20, 2050 Hybrid | −0.8688 | 153 | November 14, 2050 Partial | 1.0447 | |
This eclipse is a part ofSaros series 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435 through January 13, 1526; a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544; and total eclipses from February 3, 1562 through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. 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 25 at 1 minutes, 14 seconds on November 30, 1453, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 61 at 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’sascending node of orbit.[5]
| Series members 34–55 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 34 | 35 | 36 |
 July 17, 1814 |  July 27, 1832 |  August 7, 1850 |
| 37 | 38 | 39 |
 August 18, 1868 |  August 29, 1886 |  September 9, 1904 |
| 40 | 41 | 42 |
 September 21, 1922 |  October 1, 1940 |  October 12, 1958 |
| 43 | 44 | 45 |
 October 23, 1976 |  November 3, 1994 |  November 13, 2012 |
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
 November 25, 2030 | December 5, 2048 |  December 17, 2066 |
| 49 | 50 | 51 |
 December 27, 2084 |  January 8, 2103 |  January 19, 2121 |
| 52 | 53 | 54 |
 January 30, 2139 |  February 9, 2157 |  February 21, 2175 |
| 55 | ||
 March 3, 2193 | ||
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 ascending node.
| 21 eclipse events between July 13, 2018 and July 12, 2094 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 12–13 | April 30–May 1 | February 16–17 | December 5–6 | September 22–23 |
| 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
 July 13, 2018 |  April 30, 2022 |  February 17, 2026 |  December 5, 2029 |  September 23, 2033 |
| 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
 July 13, 2037 |  April 30, 2041 |  February 16, 2045 | December 5, 2048 |  September 22, 2052 |
| 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
 July 12, 2056 |  April 30, 2060 |  February 17, 2064 |  December 6, 2067 |  September 23, 2071 |
| 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
 July 13, 2075 |  May 1, 2079 |  February 16, 2083 |  December 6, 2086 |  September 23, 2090 |
| 157 | ||||
 July 12, 2094 | ||||
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 October 19, 1808 (Saros 111) |  September 19, 1819 (Saros 112) |  August 18, 1830 (Saros 113) |  July 18, 1841 (Saros 114) |  June 17, 1852 (Saros 115) |
 May 17, 1863 (Saros 116) |  April 16, 1874 (Saros 117) |  March 16, 1885 (Saros 118) |  February 13, 1896 (Saros 119) |  January 14, 1907 (Saros 120) |
 December 14, 1917 (Saros 121) |  November 12, 1928 (Saros 122) |  October 12, 1939 (Saros 123) |  September 12, 1950 (Saros 124) |  August 11, 1961 (Saros 125) |
 July 10, 1972 (Saros 126) |  June 11, 1983 (Saros 127) |  May 10, 1994 (Saros 128) |  April 8, 2005 (Saros 129) |  March 9, 2016 (Saros 130) |
 February 6, 2027 (Saros 131) |  January 5, 2038 (Saros 132) | December 5, 2048 (Saros 133) |  November 5, 2059 (Saros 134) |  October 4, 2070 (Saros 135) |
 September 3, 2081 (Saros 136) |  August 3, 2092 (Saros 137) |  July 4, 2103 (Saros 138) |  June 3, 2114 (Saros 139) |  May 3, 2125 (Saros 140) |
 April 1, 2136 (Saros 141) |  March 2, 2147 (Saros 142) |  January 30, 2158 (Saros 143) |  December 29, 2168 (Saros 144) |  November 28, 2179 (Saros 145) |
 October 29, 2190 (Saros 146) | ||||
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
 May 16, 1817 (Saros 125) |  April 25, 1846 (Saros 126) |  April 6, 1875 (Saros 127) |
 March 17, 1904 (Saros 128) |  February 24, 1933 (Saros 129) |  February 5, 1962 (Saros 130) |
 January 15, 1991 (Saros 131) |  December 26, 2019 (Saros 132) | December 5, 2048 (Saros 133) |
 November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) |  October 26, 2106 (Saros 135) |  October 7, 2135 (Saros 136) |
 September 16, 2164 (Saros 137) |  August 26, 2193 (Saros 138) | |
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