Solar eclipse of June 1, 2011

Partial eclipse
Partial fromTromsø, Norway
Map
Gamma	1.213
Magnitude	0.601
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	67°48′N46°48′E / 67.8°N 46.8°E /67.8; 46.8
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	19:25:17
Greatest eclipse	21:17:18
(P4) Partial end	23:06:57
References
Saros	118 (68 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9532
←January 4, 2011 July 1, 2011 →

A partialsolar eclipse occurred at the Moon’sdescending node of orbit on Wednesday, June 1, 2011,^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} with amagnitude of 0.601. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

This eclipse was the second of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring onJanuary 4,July 1, andNovember 25.

A partial eclipse was visible for parts ofNortheast Asia,Alaska, northernCanada,Greenland, northernScandinavia, andIceland.

Animated path

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  End of the eclipse seen fromTromsø,Norway

Solar Eclipse of June 1, 2011
(Local Times)

Country or territory	City or place	Start of partial eclipse	Maximum eclipse	End of partial eclipse	Duration of eclipse (hr:min)	Maximum coverage
Japan	Sapporo[a]	04:27:03	04:50:24	05:14:31	0:47	2.94%
China	Harbin[a]	03:47:11 (sunrise)	04:01:25	04:37:21	0:50	12.46%
China	Qiqihar[a]	03:51:37 (sunrise)	04:05:02	04:43:14	0:52	15.52%
China	Hulunbuir[a]	04:00:23 (sunrise)	04:09:59	04:50:34	0:50	19.69%
China	Mohe[a]	03:32:13	04:13:32	04:56:36	1:26	22.15%
South Korea	Seoul[a]	05:12:25 (sunrise)	05:13:45	05:15:04	0:03	0.12%
North Korea	Pyongyang[a]	05:13:06 (sunrise)	05:16:13	05:20:55	0:08	0.92%
Russia	Magadan[a]	07:36:31	08:17:44	09:00:51	1:24	13.71%
Russia	Yakutsk[a]	05:39:05	06:25:12	07:13:15	1:34	26.48%
Mongolia	Choibalsan[a]	04:26:12 (sunrise)	04:30:03	04:52:19	0:26	14.05%
Russia	Anadyr[a]	07:57:53	08:36:44	09:16:55	1:19	7.49%
Finland	Rovaniemi	23:41:34	00:00:39[b]	00:21:23 (sunset)[b]	0:40	19.26%
United States	Wainwright	12:19:49	13:02:36	13:46:03	1:26	8.94%
United States	Atqasuk	12:22:22	13:04:29	13:47:11	1:25	8.31%
United States	Utqiagvik	12:22:26	13:05:49	13:49:45	1:27	9.33%
Russia	Belushya Guba[a]	00:23:32	01:13:45	02:04:13	1:41	49.55%
Finland	Utsjoki	23:38:36	00:28:24[b]	01:17:54[b]	1:39	48.81%
Finland	Ivalo	23:39:03	00:28:27[b]	01:17:33[b]	1:39	48.92%
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Longyearbyen	22:37:36	23:29:49	00:21:37[b]	1:44	44.98%
Finland	Kittilä	23:41:20	00:30:26[b]	01:19:09[b]	1:38	48.57%
Norway	Tromsø	22:43:29	23:33:16	00:22:34[b]	1:39	47.73%
Sweden	Kiruna	22:44:08	23:33:20	00:22:03[b]	1:38	47.89%
Canada	Alert	16:42:53	17:36:09	18:28:36	1:46	31.71%
Greenland	Danmarkshavn	20:50:25	21:42:33	22:33:43	1:43	39.31%
Greenland	Pituffik	17:56:41	18:48:12	19:38:24	1:42	25.88%
Faroe Islands	Tórshavn	22:07:48	22:48:34	22:56:24 (sunset)	0:49	37.58%
Canada	Pond Inlet	17:05:41	17:54:44	18:42:17	1:37	19.45%
Iceland	Reykjavík	21:13:34	22:01:26	22:47:54	1:34	34.63%
Greenland	Nuuk	19:26:09	20:12:18	20:56:39	1:31	21.54%
Canada	St. John's	19:41:18	20:09:28	20:36:42	0:55	5.08%
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.^[10]

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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by onesynodic month.

Eclipse season of June–July 2011

June 1 Descending node (new moon)	June 15 Ascending node (full moon)	July 1 Descending node (new moon)
Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 118	Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 130	Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 156

• A partial solar eclipse on January 4.
• A partial solar eclipse on June 1.
• A total lunar eclipse on June 15.
• A partial solar eclipse on July 1.
• A partial solar eclipse on November 25.
• A total lunar eclipse on December 10.

• Followed by:Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015

• Preceded by:Solar eclipse of April 19, 2004
• Followed by:Solar eclipse of July 13, 2018

• Preceded by:Lunar eclipse of May 26, 2002
• Followed by:Lunar eclipse of June 5, 2020

• Preceded by:Solar eclipse of July 1, 2000
• Followed by:Solar eclipse of April 30, 2022

• Preceded by:Solar eclipse of May 21, 1993
• Followed by:Solar eclipse of June 12, 2029

• Preceded by:Solar eclipse of June 21, 1982
• Followed by:Solar eclipse of May 11, 2040

• Preceded by:Solar eclipse of July 31, 1924
• Followed by:Solar eclipse of April 1, 2098

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.^[11]

The partial solar eclipses onJanuary 4, 2011 andJuly 1, 2011 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011 to 2014
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
118 Partial inTromsø,Norway	June 1, 2011 Partial	1.21300		123 Hinode XRT footage	November 25, 2011 Partial	−1.05359
128 Annularity inRed Bluff, CA, USA	May 20, 2012 Annular	0.48279		133 Totality inMount Carbine,Queensland,Australia	November 13, 2012 Total	−0.37189
138 Annularity inChurchills Head,Australia	May 10, 2013 Annular	−0.26937		143 Partial inLibreville,Gabon	November 3, 2013 Hybrid	0.32715
148 Partial inAdelaide,Australia	April 29, 2014 Annular (non-central)	−0.99996		153 Partial inMinneapolis, MN, USA	October 23, 2014 Partial	1.09078

This eclipse is a part ofSaros series 118, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 24, 803 AD. It contains total eclipses from August 19, 947 AD through October 25, 1650; hybrid eclipses on November 4, 1668 and November 15, 1686; and annular eclipses from November 27, 1704 throughApril 30, 1957. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse onJuly 15, 2083. 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 totality was produced by member 34 at 6 minutes, 59 seconds on May 16, 1398, and the longest duration of annularity was produced by member 59 at 1 minutes, 58 seconds on February 23, 1849. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’sdescending node of orbit.^[12]

Series members 57–72 occur between 1801 and 2083:
57	58	59
February 1, 1813	February 12, 1831	February 23, 1849
60	61	62
March 6, 1867	March 16, 1885	March 29, 1903
63	64	65
April 8, 1921	April 19, 1939	April 30, 1957
66	67	68
May 11, 1975	May 21, 1993	June 1, 2011
69	70	71
June 12, 2029	June 23, 2047	July 3, 2065
72
July 15, 2083

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 1, 2011 and October 24, 2098
May 31–June 1	March 19–20	January 5–6	October 24–25	August 12–13
118	120	122	124	126
June 1, 2011	March 20, 2015	January 6, 2019	October 25, 2022	August 12, 2026
128	130	132	134	136
June 1, 2030	March 20, 2034	January 5, 2038	October 25, 2041	August 12, 2045
138	140	142	144	146
May 31, 2049	March 20, 2053	January 5, 2057	October 24, 2060	August 12, 2064
148	150	152	154	156
May 31, 2068	March 19, 2072	January 6, 2076	October 24, 2079	August 13, 2083
158	160	162	164
June 1, 2087			October 24, 2098

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.

The partial solar eclipses onApril 8, 1902 (part of Saros 108) andJanuary 5, 1935 (part of Saros 111) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.

Series members between 2000 and 2200
July 1, 2000 (Saros 117)	June 1, 2011 (Saros 118)	April 30, 2022 (Saros 119)	March 30, 2033 (Saros 120)	February 28, 2044 (Saros 121)
January 27, 2055 (Saros 122)	December 27, 2065 (Saros 123)	November 26, 2076 (Saros 124)	October 26, 2087 (Saros 125)	September 25, 2098 (Saros 126)
August 26, 2109 (Saros 127)	July 25, 2120 (Saros 128)	June 25, 2131 (Saros 129)	May 25, 2142 (Saros 130)	April 23, 2153 (Saros 131)
March 23, 2164 (Saros 132)	February 21, 2175 (Saros 133)	January 20, 2186 (Saros 134)	December 19, 2196 (Saros 135)

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
October 19, 1808 (Saros 111)
August 20, 1895 (Saros 114)	July 31, 1924 (Saros 115)	July 11, 1953 (Saros 116)
June 21, 1982 (Saros 117)	June 1, 2011 (Saros 118)	May 11, 2040 (Saros 119)
April 21, 2069 (Saros 120)	April 1, 2098 (Saros 121)	March 13, 2127 (Saros 122)
February 21, 2156 (Saros 123)	January 31, 2185 (Saros 124)

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• Shadow and Substance: Partial Eclipse of the Sun June 1, 2011Archived December 8, 2011, at theWayback Machine
• Midnight's Solar EclipseAPOD 2011/6/3
• SpaceWeather Gallery for partial solar eclipse of June 1, 2011
• Report about the partial eclipse in Bratsk, Russia(in Russian)

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