Saros cycle The saros () is a period of exactly 223 synodic months, 18 years 11 days and 8 hours, that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to approximately the same relative g ...

series 119 for

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s occurs at the Moon's ascending

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, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 eclipses, including 54 umbral eclipses (2 total, 1 hybrid, and 51 annular). The first eclipse was on 15 May 850 and the last will be on 24 June 2112. The most recent eclipse was a partial eclipse on 30 April 2022 and the next will be a partial eclipse on 11 May 2040. The longest duration of totality was only 32 seconds on August 20, 1012. The longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 37 seconds on September 1, 1625.

Umbral eclipses

Umbral eclipses (annular, total and hybrid) can be further classified as either: 1) Central (two limits), 2) Central (one limit) or 3) Non-Central (one limit). The statistical distribution of these classes in Saros series 119 appears in the following table.

All eclipses

Note: Dates are given in the

Julian calendar The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts ...

prior to 15 October 1582, and in the

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after that.

References

* http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros119.html

External links

Saros cycle 119 - Information and visualization
{{Solar eclipses Solar saros series