Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024

An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, with a magnitude of 0.9326. 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.

Other than Easter Island and a small portion near the southern tips of Argentina and Chile and the north of the Falkland Islands, the path of the eclipse's antumbra will be entirely over the Pacific Ocean. The penumbra will be visible from southern South America, Hawaii, the southwesternmost parts of Mexico (more specifically, Baja California del Sur and Jalisco), and portions of Antarctica. Approximately 175,000 people live in the path of annularity. The eclipse’s magnitude will be 0.93261, occurring only 56 minutes before apogee.

The next solar eclipse occurs on March 29, 2025.

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Related eclipses
The 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. It is also part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events.

Eclipses of 2024

 * A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 25.
 * A total solar eclipse on April 8.
 * A partial lunar eclipse on September 18.
 * An annular solar eclipse on October 2.

Metonic

 * Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 14, 2020
 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2028

Tzolkinex

 * Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017
 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 14, 2031

Half-Saros

 * Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 28, 2015
 * Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 8, 2033

Tritos

 * Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013
 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 2, 2035

Solar Saros 144

 * Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006
 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042

Inex

 * Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 24, 1995
 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 2053

Triad

 * Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 2, 1937
 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 4, 2111