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Solar System Phenomena — Eclipses in 2019

Eclipses in the Year 2019

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Partial Solar Eclipse : 05/06 January
The eclipse is completely visible from eastern Asia.
 
05 January 23:34 UT The partial eclipse begins.
06 January 01:28 UT New Moon.
01:41 UT Instant of greatest eclipse: magnitude = 0.715
03:49 UT The partial eclipse ends.
07 January 00:08 UT Moon at descending node.
Total Lunar Eclipse : 21 January
The eclipse is completely visible from North, Central and South America.
 
20 January 22:48 UT Moon at ascending node.
21 January 02:35 UT The penumbral eclipse begins.
03:33 UT The partial eclipse begins.
04:40 UT The total eclipse begins.
05:13 UT Instant of greatest eclipse: umbral magnitude = 1.20
05:16 UT Full Moon.
05:43 UT The total eclipse ends.
06:51 UT The partial eclipse ends.
07:49 UT The penumbral eclipse ends.
Total Solar Eclipse : 02 July
The path of totality crosses Chile and Argentina.

The image at the right shows a portion of the sky centred on the Sun at the instant of greatest eclipse. The Sun's disk is drawn to scale but the extent of the corona depends upon the level of solar activity at the time.

Four bright stars are visible in this scene. The two brightest stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux, are to the upper left of the eclipsed Sun. Procyon in Canis Minor is on the extreme lower left and red Betelgeuse in Orion is located on the bottom right.

Two planets can be seen in the immediate vicinity of the Sun. Venus shines at magnitude −3.9 at an elongation of 11.7° to the right of the eclipsed Sun whilst Mars is a much fainter object (magnitude +1.8) at an elongation of 19.9° to the left. Mercury is very near to Mars but is a little too far away from the Sun to be captured in this image.
The sky at the instant of greatest eclipse.
 
02 July 16:55 UT The partial eclipse begins.
18:02 UT The total eclipse begins.
19:16 UT New Moon.
19:22 UT Instant of greatest eclipse: magnitude = 1.05
20:43 UT The total eclipse ends.
21:50 UT The partial eclipse ends.
03 July 06:53 UT Moon at ascending node.
Partial Lunar Eclipse : 16/17 July
The eclipse is completely visible from most of Africa, the Middle East, southwestern Europe and southeastern Asia.
 
16 July 09:05 UT Moon at descending node.
18:42 UT The penumbral eclipse begins.
20:01 UT The partial eclipse begins.
21:31 UT Instant of greatest eclipse: umbral magnitude = 0.653
21:38 UT Full Moon.
23:00 UT The partial eclipse ends.
17 July 00:19 UT The penumbral eclipse ends.
Transit of Mercury : 11 November
The transit of Mercury in 2019
The entire transit is visible from the Galapagos Islands, eastern North America, eastern Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, the Falkland, South Georgia, Cape Verde and Canary islands, western Africa and southwestern Greenland. Europe, Africa, the Middle East and western Asia will see the transit still in progress at sunset whilst most of the rest of North America, Hawaii and New Zealand will witness the transit already in progress at sunrise.
12:35 UT The partial transit begins.
12:37 UT The full transit begins.
15:20 UT Instant of greatest transit.
18:02 UT The full transit ends.
18:04 UT The partial transit ends.
Annular Solar Eclipse : 26 December
The path of annularity crosses southern India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
 
02:29 UT The partial eclipse begins.
03:36 UT The annular eclipse begins.
05:13 UT New Moon.
05:17 UT Instant of greatest eclipse: magnitude = 0.970
06:59 UT The annular eclipse ends.
08:05 UT The partial eclipse ends.
13:01 UT Moon at descending node.

Sources

Eclipse details are provided by Eclipses Online (H.M. Nautical Almanac Office) and EclipseWise.com (Fred Espenak).