Solar eclipse of February 5, 2000

Solar eclipse of February 5, 2000
Solar eclipse of February 5, 2000
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	−1.2233
Magnitude	0.5795
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	70°12′S 134°06′E / 70.2°S 134.1°E
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	12:50:27
References
Saros	150 (16 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9507

A partial solar eclipse occurred on February 5, 2000. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. It was only visible over Antarctica.

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Related eclipses[edit]

Eclipses of 2000[edit]

Solar eclipses 1997–2000[edit]

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.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1997 to 2000
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
Descending node			Ascending node
120 Chita, Russia	1997 March 09 Total	0.91830	125	1997 September 02 Partial (south)	−1.03521
130 Total eclipse near Guadeloupe	1998 February 26 Total	0.23909	135	1998 August 22 Annular	−0.26441
140	1999 February 16 Annular	−0.47260	145 Totality from France	1999 August 11 Total	0.50623
150	2000 February 05 Partial (south)	−1.22325	155	2000 July 31 Partial (north)	1.21664

Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 150[edit]

It is a part of Saros cycle 150, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 24, 1729. It contains annular eclipses from April 22, 2126 through June 22, 2829. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 29, 2991. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 58 seconds on December 19, 2522.

Series members 11-21 occur between 1901 and 2100:
11	12	13
December 12, 1909	December 24, 1927	January 3, 1946
14	15	16
January 14, 1964	January 25, 1982	February 5, 2000
17	18	19
February 15, 2018	February 27, 2036	March 9, 2054
20	21
March 19, 2072	March 31, 2090

Metonic series[edit]

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.

22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011.
September 11-12	June 30-July 1	April 17-19	February 4-5	November 22-23
114	116	118	120	122
September 12, 1931	June 30, 1935	April 19, 1939	February 4, 1943	November 23, 1946
124	126	128	130	132
September 12, 1950	June 30, 1954	April 19, 1958	February 5, 1962	November 23, 1965
134	136	138	140	142
September 11, 1969	June 30, 1973	April 18, 1977	February 4, 1981	November 22, 1984
144	146	148	150	152
September 11, 1988	June 30, 1992	April 17, 1996	February 5, 2000	November 23, 2003
154	156
September 11, 2007	July 1, 2011