Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042
# Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday, October 14, 2042. 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.

This eclipse will be the second eclipse to cross Southeast Asia in 2042 after the total solar eclipse of April 20, 2042.

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## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses of 2040–2043

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 2040–2043 :

| Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node |
| - | - | - | - |
| 119 | May 11, 2040 Partial | 124 | November 4, 2040 Annular |
| 129 | April 30, 2041 Total | 134 | October 25, 2041 Annular |
| 139 | April 20, 2042 Total | 144 | October 14, 2042 Annular |
| 149 | April 9, 2043 Total (non-central) | 154 | October 3, 2043 Annular (non-central) |

### Saros 144

It is a part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 11, 1736. It contains annular eclipses from July 7, 1880 through August 27, 2565. There are no total eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 5, 2980. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 52 seconds on December 29, 2168.

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

| 11 | 12 | 13 |
| - | - | - |
| Jul 30, 1916 | Aug 10, 1934 | Aug 20, 1952 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 |
| Aug 31, 1970 | Sep 11, 1988 | Sep 22, 2006 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 |
| Oct 2, 2024 | Oct 14, 2042 | Oct 24, 2060 |
| 20 | 21 |
| Nov 4, 2078 | Nov 15, 2096 |

### 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: :

| January 3, 1927 (Saros 140) | December 14, 1955 (Saros 141) | November 22, 1984 (Saros 142) |
| - | - | - |
| November 3, 2013 (Saros 143) | October 14, 2042 (Saros 144) | September 23, 2071 (Saros 145) |
| September 4, 2100 (Saros 146) | |

### 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 |
