Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081
# Solar eclipse of September 3, 2081

A total solar eclipse will occur on Wednesday, September 3, 2081. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of totality will begin at the Atlantic Ocean, off European mainland at 07:26:49 UTC and will end at Indonesian island of Java at 10:43:03 UTC.

## Countries and territories experiencing totality

* Guernsey
* Jersey
* France
* Switzerland
* Germany
* Liechtenstein
* Austria
* Italy
* Slovenia
* Croatia
* Hungary
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Serbia
* Romania
* Bulgaria
* Turkey
* Syria
* Iraq
* Iran
* Kuwait
* Saudi Arabia
* Bahrain
* Qatar
* United Arab Emirates
* Oman
* Maldives
* Indonesia

## Major cities

* Paris

## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses 2080–2083

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.

| 121 | March 21, 2080 Partial | 126 | September 13, 2080 Partial |
| - | - | - | - |
| 131 | March 10, 2081 Annular | 136 | September 3, 2081 Total |
| 141 | February 27, 2082 Annular | 146 | August 24, 2082 Total |
| 151 | February 16, 2083 Partial | 156 | August 13, 2083 Partial |

### Saros 136

Solar Saros 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 14, 1360, and reached a first annular eclipse on September 8, 1504. It was a hybrid event from November 22, 1612, through January 17, 1703, and total eclipses from January 27, 1721, through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622, with the entire series lasting 1262 years. The longest eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955, with a maximum duration of totality at 7 minutes, 7.74 seconds. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.

Series members 29–43 occur between 1865 and 2117 :

| 29 | 30 | 31 |
| - | - | - |
| Apr 25, 1865 | May 6, 1883 | May 18, 1901 |
| 32 | 33 | 34 |
| May 29, 1919 | Jun 8, 1937 | Jun 20, 1955 |
| 35 | 36 | 37 |
| Jun 30, 1973 | Jul 11, 1991 | Jul 22, 2009 |
| 38 | 39 | 40 |
| Aug 2, 2027 | Aug 12, 2045 | Aug 24, 2063 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 |
| Sep 3, 2081 | Sep 14, 2099 | Sep 26, 2117 |

### Inex series

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.

Inex series members between 1901 and 2100: :

| January 3, 1908 (Saros 130) | December 13, 1936 (Saros 131) | November 23, 1965 (Saros 132) |
| - | - | - |
| November 3, 1994 (Saros 133) | October 14, 2023 (Saros 134) | September 22, 2052 (Saros 135) |
| September 3, 2081 (Saros 136) | |
