Solar eclipse of March 9, 2054
# Solar eclipse of March 9, 2054

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Monday, March 9, 2054. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

## 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 150

It is a part of Saros cycle 150, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 24, 1729. It contains annular eclipses from April 22, 2126 through June 22, 2829. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 29, 2991. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 58 seconds on December 19, 2522.

Series members 11-21 occur between 1901 and 2100: :

| 11 | 12 | 13 |
| - | - | - |
| December 12, 1909 | December 24, 1927 | January 3, 1946 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 |
| January 14, 1964 | January 25, 1982 | February 5, 2000 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 |
| February 15, 2018 | February 27, 2036 | March 9, 2054 |
| 20 | 21 |
| March 19, 2072 | March 31, 2090 |

### 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.

Octon series with 21 events between May 21, 1993 and August 2, 2065 :

| May 20–21 | March 8–9 | December 25–26 | October 13–14 | August 1–2 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 98 | 100 | 102 | 104 | 106 |
| May 21, 1955 | March 9, 1959 | December 26, 1962 | October 14, 1966 | August 2, 1970 |
| 108 | 110 | 112 | 114 | 116 |
| May 21, 1974 | March 9, 1978 | December 26, 1981 | October 14, 1985 | August 1, 1989 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| May 21, 1993 | March 9, 1997 | December 25, 2000 | October 14, 2004 | August 1, 2008 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| May 20, 2012 | March 9, 2016 | December 26, 2019 | October 14, 2023 | August 2, 2027 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| May 21, 2031 | March 9, 2035 | December 26, 2038 | October 14, 2042 | August 2, 2046 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
| May 20, 2050 | March 9, 2054 | December 26, 2057 | October 13, 2061 | August 2, 2065 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | 166 |
| May 20, 2069 | March 8, 2073 | December 26, 2076 | October 13, 2080 | August 1, 2084 |
