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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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is larger than the Sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth’s surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.It was visible from a narrow corridor in southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and southern Australia. A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbra, including most of Africa and Australia. During the sunset after the eclipse many observers in Australia saw numerous and unusual forms of a green flash.[1]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In some parts of Angola, it was the second total eclipse of the Sun within 18 months, following the Solar eclipse of June 21, 2001.Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Gallery[edit]Related eclipses[edit]Eclipse season[edit]Eclipses of 2002[edit]Tzolkinex[edit]Half-Saros[edit]Tritos[edit]Solar Saros 142[edit]Inex[edit]Solar eclipses 2000\u20132003[edit]Saros 142[edit]Tritos series[edit]Metonic series[edit]References[edit]Gallery[edit]Related eclipses[edit]Eclipse season[edit]This is the second eclipse this season.First eclipse this season: 20 November 2002 Penumbral Lunar EclipseEclipses of 2002[edit]Tzolkinex[edit]Half-Saros[edit]Tritos[edit]Solar Saros 142[edit]Inex[edit]Solar eclipses 2000\u20132003[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.[2]Partial solar eclipses on February 5, 2000 and July 31, 2000 occur in the previous lunar year set.Saros 142[edit]It is a part of Saros cycle 142, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 17, 1624. It contains one hybrid eclipse on July 14, 1768, and total eclipses from July 25, 1786 through October 29, 2543. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on June 5, 2904. The longest duration of totality will be 6 minutes, 34 seconds on May 28, 2291. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon\u2019s descending node.[3]Series members 17\u201341 occur between 1901 and 2359171819October 10, 1912October 21, 1930November 1, 1948202122November 12, 1966November 22, 1984December 4, 2002232425December 14, 2020December 26, 2038January 5, 2057262728January 16, 2075January 27, 2093February 8, 2111293031February 18, 2129March 2, 2147March 12, 2165323334March 23, 2183April 4, 2201April 15, 2219353637April 25, 2237May 7, 2255May 17, 2273383940May 28, 2291June 9, 2309June 20, 232741June 30, 2345Tritos series[edit]This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (\u2248 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 (\u2248 33 years minus 3 months) come close (\u2248 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.Series members between 1901 and 2100September 9, 1904(Saros 133)August 10, 1915(Saros 134)July 9, 1926(Saros 135)June 8, 1937(Saros 136)May 9, 1948(Saros 137)April 8, 1959(Saros 138)March 7, 1970(Saros 139)February 4, 1981(Saros 140)January 4, 1992(Saros 141)December 4, 2002(Saros 142)November 3, 2013(Saros 143)October 2, 2024(Saros 144)September 2, 2035(Saros 145)August 2, 2046(Saros 146)July 1, 2057(Saros 147)May 31, 2068(Saros 148)May 1, 2079(Saros 149)March 31, 2090(Saros 150)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.21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029July 10\u201312April 29\u201330February 15\u201316December 4\u20135September 21\u201323116118120122124July 11, 1953April 30, 1957February 15, 1961December 4, 1964September 22, 1968126128130132134July 10, 1972April 29, 1976February 16, 1980December 4, 1983September 23, 1987136138140142144July 11, 1991April 29, 1995February 16, 1999December 4, 2002September 22, 2006146148150152154July 11, 2010April 29, 2014February 15, 2018December 4, 2021September 21, 2025156158160162164July 11, 2029References[edit]Photos:     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/solar-eclipse-of-december-4-2002\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Solar eclipse of December 4, 2002"}}]}]