Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033
# Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033

A total solar eclipse will occur on Wednesday, March 30, 2033. 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.

Totality will be visible in Nome, Alaska, Utqiaġvik, Alaska and the Chukchi Peninsula in the mid-morning hours. This is the last of 55 umbral eclipses of Solar Saros 120. The 1st was in 1059. The total duration is 974 years.

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## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses of 2033–2036

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 2033–2036 :

| Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
| - | - | - | - |
| 120 | March 30, 2033 Total | 125 | September 23, 2033 Partial |
| 130 | March 20, 2034 Total | 135 | September 12, 2034 Annular |
| 140 | March 9, 2035 Annular | 145 | September 2, 2035 Total |
| 150 | February 27, 2036 Partial | 155 | August 21, 2036 Partial |
| A partial solar eclipse on July 23, 2036 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set. |||||

### Saros 120

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and reached an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and total eclipses from June 8, 1564, through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.

Series members 55–65 occur between 1901 and 2100 :

| 55 | 56 | 57 |
| - | - | - |
| January 14, 1907 | January 24, 1925 | February 4, 1943 |
| 58 | 59 | 60 |
| February 15, 1961 | February 26, 1979 | March 9, 1997 |
| 61 | 62 | 63 |
| March 20, 2015 | March 30, 2033 | April 11, 2051 |
| 64 | 65 |
| April 21, 2069 | May 2, 2087 |

### Metonic cycle

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).

21 eclipse events between June 12, 2029 and June 12, 2105 :

| June 11–12 | March 30–31 | January 16 | November 4–5 | August 23–24 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| June 12, 2029 | March 30, 2033 | January 16, 2037 | November 4, 2040 | August 23, 2044 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| June 11, 2048 | March 30, 2052 | January 16, 2056 | November 5, 2059 | August 24, 2063 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| June 11, 2067 | March 31, 2071 | January 16, 2075 | November 4, 2078 | August 24, 2082 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
| June 11, 2086 | March 31, 2090 | January 16, 2094 | November 4, 2097 |
