Solar eclipse of May 31, 2003

Solar eclipse of May 31, 2003
	320px Partial from Florenville, Belgium
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.996
Magnitude	0.9384
Maximum eclipse
Duration	217 sec (3 m 37 s)
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band	- km
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	4:09:22
References
Saros	147 (22 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9515

An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 31, 2003. 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. Annularity was visible across central Greenland and northern Scotland. Partiality was visible throughout Europe, Asia, and far northwestern Canada.

Animation

Images

Eclipse--31-05-2003-2.jpg

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2000-2003

Each member 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.

Note: Partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2000–2003
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Ascending node		Descending node
117	July 1, 2000 Partial (south)	122	December 25, 2000 Partial (north)
127 Totality from Zambia	June 21, 2001 Total	132 Partial from Minneapolis, MN	December 14, 2001 Annular
137 Partial Los Angeles, CA	June 10, 2002 Annular	142	December 4, 2002 Total
147 Partial from Belfort	May 31, 2003 Annular	152	November 23, 2003 Total

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).

This series has 21 eclipse events between August 12, 1942 and August 11, 2018.

August 10-12	May 30	March 18	January 4-5	October 23-24
115	117	119	121	123
August 12, 1942	May 30, 1946	March 18, 1950	January 5, 1954	October 23, 1957
125	127	129	131	133
August 11, 1961	150px May 30, 1965	March 18, 1969	January 4, 1973	October 23, 1976
135	137	139	141	143
August 10, 1980	May 30, 1984	March 18, 1988	January 4, 1992	October 24, 1995
145	147	149	151	153
August 11, 1999	May 31, 2003	March 19, 2007	January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014
155
August 11, 2018