Solar eclipse of May 2, 2087

Solar eclipse of May 2, 2087
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.1139
Magnitude	0.8011
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	70°18′N 127°36′E / 70.3°N 127.6°E / 70.3; 127.6
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	18:04:42
References
Saros	120 (65 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9704

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Friday, May 2, 2087,^[1] with a magnitude of 0.8011. 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.

The partial solar eclipse will be visible for parts of eastern Russia, northern North America, and Northern Europe.

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.^[2]

This eclipse is part of an eclipse 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 a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of May–June 2087

May 2 Descending node (new moon)	May 17 Ascending node (full moon)	June 1 Descending node (new moon)
Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 120	Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 132	Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 158

• A partial solar eclipse on May 2.
• A total lunar eclipse on May 17.
• A partial solar eclipse on June 1.
• A partial solar eclipse on October 26.
• A total lunar eclipse on November 10.

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 15, 2083
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 18, 2091

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 21, 2080
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 13, 2094

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 27, 2078
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 7, 2096

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 1, 2076
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 1, 2098

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 21, 2069
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 14, 2105

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 22, 2058
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 13, 2116

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 1, 2000
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 3, 2174

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.^[3]

The partial solar eclipse on June 1, 2087 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2087 to 2090
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
120	May 2, 2087 Partial	1.1139		125	October 26, 2087 Partial	−1.2882
130	April 21, 2088 Total	0.4135		135	October 14, 2088 Annular	−0.5349
140	April 10, 2089 Annular	−0.3319		145	October 4, 2089 Total	0.2167
150	March 31, 2090 Partial	−1.1028		155	September 23, 2090 Total	0.9157

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD. It contains annular eclipses from August 11, 1059 through April 26, 1492; hybrid eclipses from May 8, 1510 through June 8, 1564; and total eclipses from June 20, 1582 through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 11 at 6 minutes, 24 seconds on September 11, 1113, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 60 at 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.^[4]

Series members 50–71 occur between 1801 and 2195:
50	51	52
November 19, 1816	November 30, 1834	December 11, 1852
53	54	55
December 22, 1870	January 1, 1889	January 14, 1907
56	57	58
January 24, 1925	February 4, 1943	February 15, 1961
59	60	61
February 26, 1979	March 9, 1997	March 20, 2015
62	63	64
March 30, 2033	April 11, 2051	April 21, 2069
65	66	67
May 2, 2087	May 14, 2105	May 25, 2123
68	69	70
June 4, 2141	June 16, 2159	June 26, 2177
71
July 7, 2195

The metonic 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 July 15, 2083 and December 7, 2170
July 14–15	May 2–3	February 18–19	December 7–8	September 25–26
118	120	122	124	126
July 15, 2083	May 2, 2087	February 18, 2091	December 7, 2094	September 25, 2098
128	130	132	134	136
July 15, 2102	May 3, 2106	February 18, 2110	December 8, 2113	September 26, 2117
138	140	142	144	146
July 14, 2121	May 3, 2125	February 18, 2129	December 7, 2132	September 26, 2136
148	150	152	154	156
July 14, 2140	May 3, 2144	February 19, 2148	December 8, 2151	September 26, 2155
158	160	162	164
July 15, 2159			December 7, 2170

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic 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 2054 and 2200
August 3, 2054 (Saros 117)	July 3, 2065 (Saros 118)	June 1, 2076 (Saros 119)	May 2, 2087 (Saros 120)	April 1, 2098 (Saros 121)
March 1, 2109 (Saros 122)	January 30, 2120 (Saros 123)	December 30, 2130 (Saros 124)	November 28, 2141 (Saros 125)	October 28, 2152 (Saros 126)
September 28, 2163 (Saros 127)	August 27, 2174 (Saros 128)	July 26, 2185 (Saros 129)	June 26, 2196 (Saros 130)

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic 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 31, 1826 (Saros 111)
August 31, 1913 (Saros 114)	August 12, 1942 (Saros 115)	July 22, 1971 (Saros 116)
July 1, 2000 (Saros 117)	June 12, 2029 (Saros 118)	May 22, 2058 (Saros 119)
May 2, 2087 (Saros 120)	April 13, 2116 (Saros 121)	March 23, 2145 (Saros 122)
March 3, 2174 (Saros 123)

• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2051/SE2087May02P.GIF