Solar eclipse of January 5, 2038

Solar eclipse of January 5, 2038
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.4169
Magnitude	0.9728
Maximum eclipse
Duration	198 s (3 min 18 s)
Coordinates	2°06′N 25°24′W / 2.1°N 25.4°W / 2.1; -25.4
Max. width of band	107 km (66 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:47:11
References
Saros	132 (47 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9592

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, January 5, 2038,^[1] with a magnitude of 0.9728. 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. The Moon's apparent diameter will be near the average diameter because it will occur 6.8 days after perigee (on December 29, 2037, at 18:50 UTC) and 7 days before apogee (on January 12, 2038, at 14:00 UTC).^[2]

Annularity will be visible from parts of Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, northwestern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, southeastern Libya, northwestern Sudan, and southwestern Egypt. A partial eclipse will be visible for parts of eastern North America, Central America, the Caribbean, northern South America, Europe, and the northern two-thirds of Africa.