Red-Twig Dogwood – Cornus sericea

A partial solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, August 3, 2054, with a magnitude of 0.0655. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. This event will be the 71st and final event of Solar Saros 117.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 2054–2058

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.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2054 to 2058
Ascending node		Descending node
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
117	August 3, 2054 Partial	122	January 27, 2055 Partial
127	July 24, 2055 Total	132	January 16, 2056 Annular
137	July 12, 2056 Annular	142	January 5, 2057 Total
147	July 1, 2057 Annular	152	December 26, 2057 Total
157	June 21, 2058 Partial

Saros 117

It is a part of Saros cycle 117, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 24, 792 AD. It contains annular eclipses from September 18, 936 AD through May 14, 1333, hybrid eclipses from May 25, 1351 through July 8, 1423, and total eclipses from July 18, 1441 through May 19, 1928. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 3, 2054. The longest duration of totality was 4 minutes, 19 seconds on April 26, 1892.