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Oct 2023 Solar Eclipse - Beginning/Saros 134

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An annular solar eclipse occurred on October 14, 2023.[1][2][3][4][5] 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 or miles wide. Occurring only 4.6 days after apogee (Apogee on October 10, 2023), the Moon's apparent diameter was small.

This eclipse was visible in the American continent including the United States.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_October_14,_2023#Saros_134

The Annular Solar Eclipse of 2023 Oct 14 is visible from the following geographic regions:

Partial Eclipse: North America, Central America, South America

Annular Eclipse: west U.S., Central America, Colombia, Brazil

The map to the right depicts the geographic regions of eclipse visibility. Click on the map to enlarge it. For an explanation of the features appearing in the map, see Key to Solar Eclipse Maps.

The instant of greatest eclipse takes place on 2023 Oct 14 at 18:00:41 TD (17:59:29 UT1). This is 4.6 days after the Moon reaches apogee. During the eclipse, the Sun is in the constellation Virgo. The synodic month in which the eclipse takes place has a Brown Lunation Number of 1247.

The eclipse belongs to Saros 134 and is number 44 of 71 eclipses in the series. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node. The Moon moves northward with respect to the node with each succeeding eclipse in the series and gamma increases.

The annular solar eclipse of 2023 Oct 14 is followed two weeks later by a partial lunar eclipse on 2023 Oct 28.

Source: https://www.eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/2001-2100/SE2023Oct14Aprime.html

*** Disclaimer: The chart below marks the exact moment of the first location where the partial solar eclipse was visible/began. The chart it is set for the location of Re'im Israel.