Solar eclipse of May 31, 2068
# Solar eclipse of May 31, 2068

A total solar eclipse will occur on May 31, 2068. 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.

## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses 2065–2069

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2065–2069 :

| Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
| - | - | - | - |
| 118 | July 3, 2065 Partial | 123 | December 27, 2065 Partial |
| 128 | June 22, 2066 Annular | 133 | December 17, 2066 Total |
| 138 | June 11, 2067 Annular | 143 | December 6, 2067 Hybrid |
| 148 | May 31, 2068 Total | 153 | November 24, 2068 Partial |
| 158 | May 20, 2069 Partial |

### Saros 148

Solar saros 148, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 75 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on September 21, 1653. It has annular eclipses on April 29, 2014, and May 9, 2032, and a hybrid eclipse on May 20, 2050. It has total eclipses from May 31, 2068, to August 3, 2771. The series ends at member 75 as a partial eclipse on December 12, 2987. The longest total eclipse will be on April 26, 2609, at 5 minutes and 23 seconds.

Series members 15–25 occur between 1901 and 2100: :

| 15 | 16 | 17 |
| - | - | - |
| February 23, 1906 | March 5, 1924 | March 16, 1942 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 |
| March 27, 1960 | April 7, 1978 | April 17, 1996 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 |
| April 29, 2014 | May 9, 2032 | May 20, 2050 |
| 24 | 25 |
| May 31, 2068 | June 11, 2086 |

### Tritos series

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 1901 and 2100 :

| September 9, 1904 (Saros 133) | August 10, 1915 (Saros 134) | July 9, 1926 (Saros 135) |
| - | - | - |
| June 8, 1937 (Saros 136) | May 9, 1948 (Saros 137) | April 8, 1959 (Saros 138) |
| March 7, 1970 (Saros 139) | February 4, 1981 (Saros 140) | January 4, 1992 (Saros 141) |
| December 4, 2002 (Saros 142) | November 3, 2013 (Saros 143) | October 2, 2024 (Saros 144) |
| September 2, 2035 (Saros 145) | August 2, 2046 (Saros 146) | July 1, 2057 (Saros 147) |
| May 31, 2068 (Saros 148) | May 1, 2079 (Saros 149) | March 31, 2090 (Saros 150) |

### Metonic series

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.

21 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and June 1, 2087 :

| May 31 – June 1 | March 19–20 | January 5–6 | October 24–25 | August 12–13 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| June 1, 2011 | March 20, 2015 | January 6, 2019 | October 25, 2022 | August 12, 2026 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| June 1, 2030 | March 20, 2034 | January 5, 2038 | October 25, 2041 | August 12, 2045 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| May 31, 2049 | March 20, 2053 | January 5, 2057 | October 24, 2060 | August 12, 2064 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
| May 31, 2068 | March 19, 2072 | January 6, 2076 | October 24, 2079 | August 13, 2083 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | 166 |
| June 1, 2087 | | | October 24, 2098 | |
