Solar eclipse of March 29, 2025
A partial solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, March 29, 2025. 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.
Solar eclipse of March 29, 2025 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.0405 |
Magnitude | 0.9376 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 61.1°N 77.1°W |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 10:48:36 |
References | |
Saros | 149 (21 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9563 |
Images
Animated path
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 2022–2025
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 2022–2025 | |||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | ||||
119 | 2022 April 30![]() Partial |
124 | 2022 October 25![]() Partial | ||
129 | 2023 April 20![]() Hybrid |
134 | 2023 October 14![]() Annular | ||
139 | 2024 April 8![]() Total |
144 | 2024 October 2![]() Annular | ||
149 | 2025 March 29![]() Partial |
154 | 2025 September 21![]() Partial |
Saros 149
Solar saros 149, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 21, 1664. It has total eclipses from April 9, 2043, to October 2, 2331. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 28, 2926. The longest total eclipse will be on July 17, 2205, at 4 minutes and 10 seconds.[2]
Series members 15–25 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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15 | 16 | 17 |
![]() January 23, 1917 |
![]() February 3, 1935 |
![]() February 14, 1953 |
18 | 19 | 20 |
![]() February 25, 1971 |
![]() March 7, 1989 |
![]() March 19, 2007 |
21 | 22 | 23 |
![]() March 29, 2025 |
![]() April 9, 2043 |
![]() April 20, 2061 |
24 | 25 | |
![]() May 1, 2079 |
![]() May 11, 2097 |
Tritos series
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Series members between 1901 and 2100 | |||
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![]() March 6, 1905 (Saros 138) |
![]() February 3, 1916 (Saros 139) |
![]() January 3, 1927 (Saros 140) | |
![]() December 2, 1937 (Saros 141) |
![]() November 1, 1948 (Saros 142) |
![]() October 2, 1959 (Saros 143) | |
![]() August 31, 1970 (Saros 144) |
![]() July 31, 1981 (Saros 145) |
![]() June 30, 1992 (Saros 146) | |
![]() May 31, 2003 (Saros 147) |
![]() April 29, 2014 (Saros 148) |
![]() March 29, 2025 (Saros 149) | |
![]() February 27, 2036 (Saros 150) |
![]() January 26, 2047 (Saros 151) |
![]() December 26, 2057 (Saros 152) | |
![]() November 24, 2068 (Saros 153) |
![]() October 24, 2079 (Saros 154) |
![]() September 23, 2090 (Saros 155) |
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 June 10, 1964, and August 21, 2036 | ||||
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June 10–11 | March 27–29 | January 15–16 | November 3 | August 21–22 |
117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
![]() June 10, 1964 |
![]() March 28, 1968 |
![]() January 16, 1972 |
![]() November 3, 1975 |
![]() August 22, 1979 |
127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
![]() June 11, 1983 |
![]() March 29, 1987 |
![]() January 15, 1991 |
![]() November 3, 1994 |
![]() August 22, 1998 |
137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
![]() June 10, 2002 |
![]() March 29, 2006 |
![]() January 15, 2010 |
![]() November 3, 2013 |
![]() August 21, 2017 |
147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
![]() June 10, 2021 |
![]() March 29, 2025 |
![]() January 14, 2029 |
![]() November 3, 2032 |
![]() August 21, 2036 |
References
- van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.
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External links
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC