Solar eclipse of September 22, 2052
# Solar eclipse of September 22, 2052

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Sunday, September 22, 2052. 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 |

### Tritos

* Preceded: Solar eclipse of October 25, 2041
* Followed: Solar eclipse of August 24, 2063

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded: Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045
* Followed: Solar eclipse of November 5, 2059

### Saros 135

It is a part of Saros cycle 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511 through February 24, 2305, hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323 and March 18, 2341 and total eclipses from March 29, 2359 through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431.

Series members 27–43 occur between 1800 and 2100: :

| 27 | 28 | 29 |
| - | - | - |
| Apr 24, 1800 | May 5, 1818 | May 15, 1836 |
| 30 | 31 | 32 |
| May 26, 1854 | Jun 6, 1872 | Jun 17, 1890 |
| 33 | 34 | 35 |
| Jun 28, 1908 | Jul 9, 1926 | Jul 20, 1944 |
| 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Jul 31, 1962 | Aug 10, 1980 | Aug 22, 1998 |
| 39 | 40 | 41 |
| Sep 1, 2016 | Sep 12, 2034 | Sep 22, 2052 |
| 42 | 43 |
| Oct 4, 2070 | Oct 14, 2088 |

### 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, 1908 (Saros 130) | December 13, 1936 (Saros 131) | November 23, 1965 (Saros 132) |
| - | - | - |
| November 3, 1994 (Saros 133) | October 14, 2023 (Saros 134) | September 22, 2052 (Saros 135) |
| September 3, 2081 (Saros 136) | |

### 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 ascending node.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between July 13, 2018 and July 12, 2094 :

| July 12–13 | April 30-May 1 | February 16–17 | December 5–6 | September 22–23 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
| July 13, 2018 | April 30, 2022 | February 17, 2026 | December 5, 2029 | September 23, 2033 |
| 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
| July 13, 2037 | April 30, 2041 | February 16, 2045 | December 5, 2048 | September 22, 2052 |
| 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
| July 12, 2056 | April 30, 2060 | February 17, 2064 | December 6, 2067 | September 23, 2071 |
| 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
| July 13, 2075 | May 1, 2079 | February 16, 2083 | December 6, 2086 | September 23, 2090 |
| 157 |
| July 12, 2094 |
