Solar eclipse of February 5, 2046

Solar eclipse of February 5, 2046
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.3765
Magnitude	0.9232
Maximum eclipse
Duration	582 s (9 min 42 s)
Coordinates	4°48′N 171°24′W / 4.8°N 171.4°W / 4.8; -171.4
Max. width of band	310 km (190 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	23:06:26
References
Saros	141 (25 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9609

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Monday, February 5 and Tuesday, February 6, 2046,^[1] with a magnitude of 0.9232. 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. Occurring about 2.25 days before apogee (on February 8, 2046, at 5:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.^[2]

The path of annularity will be visible from parts of eastern Indonesia (specifically Western New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Hawaii, and California, Oregon, Nevada, and Idaho in the United States. A partial solar eclipse will also be visible for parts of Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Oceania, and western North America.