title: Solar eclipse of April 30, 2060
text: # Solar eclipse of April 30, 2060
  
  A total solar eclipse will occur on Friday, April 30, 2060. 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.
  
  ## Related eclipses
  
  ### Solar eclipses 2059–2061
  
  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.
  
  Solar eclipses 2059–2061 :
  
  | 119 | May 22, 2058 Partial | 124 | November 16, 2058 Partial |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 129 | May 11, 2059 Total | 134 | November 5, 2059 Annular |
  | 139 | April 30, 2060 Total | 144 | October 24, 2060 Annular |
  | 149 | April 20, 2061 Total | 154 | October 13, 2061 Annular |
  
  ### Saros 139
  
  It is a part of saros series 139, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 17, 1501. It contains hybrid eclipses on August 11, 1627 through to December 9, 1825 and total eclipses from December 21, 1843 through to March 26, 2601. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 3, 2763. Its eclipses are entabulated in three columns; each one in the same column, every third eclipse, is one exeligmos apart so cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the earth.
  
  The solar eclipse of June 13, 2132 will be the longest total solar eclipse since July 11, 1991 at 6 minutes, 55.02 seconds.
  
  The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 39 at 7 minutes, 29.22 seconds on July 16, 2186. After that date each duration will decrease, until the series end. This date is the longest solar eclipse computed between 4000 BC and 6000 AD. Saros series eclipses are during the Moon’s ascending node (a term related to our equator and polar-naming conventions).
  
  Series members 24–45 occur between 1901 and 2300 :
  
  | 24 | 25 | 26 |
  | - | - | - |
  | February 3, 1916 | February 14, 1934 | February 25, 1952 |
  | 27 | 28 | 29 |
  | March 7, 1970 | March 18, 1988 | March 29, 2006 |
  | 30 | 31 | 32 |
  | April 8, 2024 | April 20, 2042 | April 30, 2060 |
  | 33 | 34 | 35 |
  | May 11, 2078 | May 22, 2096 | June 3, 2114 |
  | 36 | 37 | 38 |
  | June 13, 2132 | June 25, 2150 | July 5, 2168 |
  | 39 | 40 | 41 |
  | July 16, 2186 | July 27, 2204 | August 8, 2222 |
  | 42 | 43 | 44 |
  | August 18, 2240 | August 29, 2258 | September 9, 2276 |
  | 45 |
  | September 20, 2294 |
  
  ### 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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.
  
  21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between July 13, 2018, and July 12, 2094 :
  
  | July 12–13 | April 30-May 1 | February 16–17 | December 5–6 | September 22–23 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
  | July 13, 2018 | April 30, 2022 | February 17, 2026 | December 5, 2029 | September 23, 2033 |
  | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
  | July 13, 2037 | April 30, 2041 | February 16, 2045 | December 5, 2048 | September 22, 2052 |
  | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
  | July 12, 2056 | April 30, 2060 | February 17, 2064 | December 6, 2067 | September 23, 2071 |
  | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
  | July 13, 2075 | May 1, 2079 | February 16, 2083 | December 6, 2086 | September 23, 2090 |
  | 157 |
  | July 12, 2094 |
  