Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039

Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.8312
Magnitude	0.9454
Maximum eclipse
Duration	245 s (4 min 5 s)
Coordinates	78°54′N 102°06′W / 78.9°N 102.1°W / 78.9; -102.1
Max. width of band	365 km (227 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	17:12:54
References
Saros	147 (24 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9595

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, June 21, 2039,^[1] with a magnitude of 0.9454. 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 days after apogee (on June 19, 2039, at 16:55 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be smaller.^[2]

Annularity will be visible from parts of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, southern Finland, Estonia, Latvia, northeastern Lithuania, western Russia, and Belarus. A partial eclipse will be visible for parts of Hawaii, North America, Europe, Northwest Africa, and northern Russia.

This eclipse will start only a few hours after the northern solstice and most of the path will go across areas with midnight sun. For mainland Norway, Sweden and Belarus, it will be the first central solar eclipse since June 1954.