Solar eclipse of August 12, 2064
# Solar eclipse of August 12, 2064

A total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, 2064, that occurs on the Pacific coast and in the southern cone, especially in the cities of Valparaíso and the capital Santiago. 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 2062–2065

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 11, 2062 Partial | 126 | September 3, 2062 Partial |
| - | - | - | - |
| 131 | February 28, 2063 Annular | 136 | August 24, 2063 Total |
| 141 | February 17, 2064 Annular | 146 | August 12, 2064 Total |
| 151 | February 5, 2065 Partial | 156 | August 2, 2065 Partial |

### Saros 146

It is a part of Saros cycle 146, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 76 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on September 19, 1541. It contains total eclipses from May 29, 1938, through October 7, 2154, hybrid eclipses from October 17, 2172, through November 20, 2226, and annular eclipses from December 1, 2244, through August 10, 2659. The series ends at member 76 as a partial eclipse on December 29, 2893. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 21 seconds on June 30, 1992.

Series members 21-37 occur between 1901 and 2200: :

| 21 | 22 | 23 |
| - | - | - |
| May 7, 1902 | May 18, 1920 | May 29, 1938 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 |
| June 8, 1956 | June 20, 1974 | June 30, 1992 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 |
| July 11, 2010 | July 22, 2028 | August 2, 2046 |
| 30 | 31 | 32 |
| August 12, 2064 | August 24, 2082 | September 4, 2100 |
| 33 | 34 | 35 |
| September 15, 2118 | September 26, 2136 | October 7, 2154 |
| 36 | 37 |
| October 17, 2172 | October 29, 2190 |

### 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: :

| November 22, 1919 (Saros 141) | November 1, 1948 (Saros 142) | October 12, 1977 (Saros 143) |
| - | - | - |
| September 22, 2006 (Saros 144) | September 2, 2035 (Saros 145) | August 12, 2064 (Saros 146) |
| July 23, 2093 (Saros 147) | |

### 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 | |
