Solar eclipse of March 20, 2053
# Solar eclipse of March 20, 2053

An annular solar eclipse will take place on Thursday, March 20, 2053 with a magnitude of 0.9919. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses 2051–2054

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 2051–2054 :

| Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
| - | - | - | - |
| Saros | Map | Saros | Map |
| 120 | April 11, 2051 Partial | 125 | October 4, 2051 Partial |
| 130 | March 30, 2052 Total | 135 | September 22, 2052 Annular |
| 140 | March 20, 2053 Annular | 145 | September 12, 2053 Total |
| 150 | March 9, 2054 Partial | 155 | September 2, 2054 Partial |

### Saros 140

It is a part of Saros cycle 140, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 16, 1512. It contains total eclipses from July 21, 1656 through November 9, 1836, hybrid eclipses from November 20, 1854 through December 23, 1908, and annular eclipses from January 3, 1927 through December 7, 2485. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 1, 2774. The longest duration of totality was 4 minutes, 10 seconds on August 12, 1692.

Series members 23–53 occur between 1901 and 2450: :

| 23 | 24 | 25 |
| - | - | - |
| Dec 23, 1908 | Jan 3, 1927 | Jan 14, 1945 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 |
| Jan 25, 1963 | Feb 4, 1981 | Feb 16, 1999 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 |
| Feb 26, 2017 | Mar 9, 2035 | Mar 20, 2053 |
| 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Mar 31, 2071 | Apr 10, 2089 | Apr 23, 2107 |
| 35 | 36 | 37 |
| May 3, 2125 | May 14, 2143 | May 25, 2161 |
| 38 | 39 | 40 |
| Jun 5, 2179 | Jun 15, 2197 | Jun 28, 2215 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 |
| Jul 8, 2233 | Jul 19, 2251 | Jul 29, 2269 |
| 44 | 45 | 46 |
| Aug 10, 2287 | Aug 21, 2305 | Sep 1, 2323 |
| 47 | 48 | 49 |
| Sep 12, 2341 | Sep 23, 2359 | Oct 3, 2377 |
| 50 | 51 | 52 |
| Oct 14, 2395 | Oct 25, 2413 | Nov 5, 2431 |
| 53 |
| Nov 15, 2449 |

### 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 | |
