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 157 for

solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season i ...

s will at the Moon's ascending

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, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 eclipses, 56 of which will be umbral (19 annular, 3 hybrid, 34 total). The first eclipse will occur on 21 June 2058 and the last will be on 17 July 3302. The longest totality will be 5 minutes 57 seconds on 31 July 2725 and the longest annular will be 4 minutes 16 seconds on 22 November 2310. This solar saros is linked to

Lunar Saros 150 Saros cycle series 150 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's ascending node, 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 71 events. This lunar saros is linked to Solar Saros 157. See also * List of lunar eclipses ** List of Saros series for luna ...

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 157 appears in the following table.

All eclipses

References

* http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros157.html

External links

Saros cycle 157 - Information and visualization
{{Solar eclipses Solar saros series