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next eclipse season ... no eclipses for about 5 and a half months... September 7, 2006: lunar (full) beginning: Lunar saros 118 (51 of 73) next new moon September 22, 2006: solar (new) end: Solar saros 144 (16 of 70) next eclipse season ... no eclipses for about 5 and a half months... March 3, 2007: lunar (full) beginning: Lunar saros 123 (52 ...
The longest annular solar eclipse of the 21st century took place on January 15, 2010, with a duration of 11 minutes and 7.8 seconds. The maximum possible duration is 12 minutes and 29 seconds. The eclipse of May 20, 2050, will be the second hybrid eclipse in the span of less than one year, the first one being on November 25, 2049.
One total solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1970, and the remaining two will occur on May 1, 2079 and September 14, 2099. The most recent total solar eclipse in Maryland was on March 7, 1970; the most recent annular solar eclipse was on May 30, 1984; and the most recent partial solar eclipse was on April 8, 2024.
Weather permitting, a faint lunar eclipse will be visible in the wee hours of March 25, two weeks before the solar eclipse.
Eclipse season starts on March 25 with the lunar eclipse in Libra and ends on April 8, 2024, with the solar eclipse in Aries.
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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 in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [1]
A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Friday, November 25, 2011, [1] [2] [3] with a magnitude of 0.9047. 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.