A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, October 4, 2051, with a magnitude of 0.6024. 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 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.[1]
It is a part of Saros cycle 125, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on February 4, 1060. It contains total eclipses from June 13, 1276 through July 16, 1330, hybrid eclipses on July 26, 1348 and August 7, 1366, and annular eclipses from August 17, 1384 through August 22, 1979. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on April 9, 2358. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 11 seconds on June 25, 1294, and the longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 23 seconds on July 10, 1907.
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