A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Monday, August 22 and Tuesday, August 23, 2044,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0364. 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. Occurring about 2.1 days after perigee (on August 21, 2044, at 0:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]
This will be the last of 41 umbral solar eclipses in Solar Saros 126.
Totality will be visible in the evening of August 22 across:[3]
A partial solar eclipse will be visible in Siberia in the morning of August 23, and throughout western Canada and United States until sunset on August 22.
The greatest duration of the total eclipse will be observed in the Northwest Territories, approximately 60miles southeast of Great Bear Lake.[4]
Animated path
Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[5]
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2044 August 22 at 23:10:51.7 UTC | |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2044 August 23 at 00:27:10.1 UTC | |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2044 August 23 at 00:46:01.0 UTC | |
| First Central Line | 2044 August 23 at 00:49:11.6 UTC | |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2044 August 23 at 00:52:44.5 UTC | |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2044 August 23 at 01:07:14.0 UTC | |
| Greatest Duration | 2044 August 23 at 01:16:35.8 UTC | |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2044 August 23 at 01:17:01.7 UTC | |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2044 August 23 at 01:41:52.4 UTC | |
| Last Central Line | 2044 August 23 at 01:45:22.9 UTC | |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2044 August 23 at 01:48:31.2 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2044 August 23 at 03:23:35.9 UTC |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.03644 | |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.07420 | |
| Gamma | 0.96130 | |
| Sun Right Ascension | 10h10m33.4s | |
| Sun Declination | +11°16'02.2" | |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'48.9" | |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" | |
| Moon Right Ascension | 10h12m17.2s | |
| Moon Declination | +12°07'34.4" | |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'19.6" | |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°59'55.1" | |
| ΔT | 81.0 s |
See also: Eclipse cycle. This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.