A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Saturday, September 1 and Sunday, September 2, 2035,[1] with a magnitude of 1.032. 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 2.9 days after perigee (on August 30, 2035, at 3:35 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter will be larger.[2]
Totality will be visible from parts of northern China, North Korea, and Japan. A partial eclipse will be visible for most of Asia, northern Oceania, Hawaii, southwest Alaska, and the western United States.
The path of totality will cross two Asian capital cities, Beijing, China and Pyongyang, North Korea, and will pass north of a third, Tokyo, Japan.[3]
The 2035 eclipse is the setting of the 2003 video game . Dracula's castle is located inside the solar eclipse, having been sealed there in 1999.
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.[4]
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2035 September 01 at 23:16:45.8 UTC | |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2035 September 02 at 00:17:05.5 UTC | |
| First Central Line | 2035 September 02 at 00:17:36.1 UTC | |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2035 September 02 at 00:18:06.7 UTC | |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 2035 September 02 at 01:28:48.7 UTC | |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2035 September 02 at 01:45:01.1 UTC | |
| Greatest Duration | 2035 September 02 at 01:53:17.4 UTC | |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2035 September 02 at 01:56:46.3 UTC | |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2035 September 02 at 02:00:44.2 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 2035 September 02 at 02:25:01.7 UTC | |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2035 September 02 at 03:35:37.6 UTC | |
| Last Central Line | 2035 September 02 at 03:36:05.7 UTC | |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2035 September 02 at 03:36:33.8 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2035 September 02 at 04:36:57.8 UTC |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.03204 | |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.06510 | |
| Gamma | 0.37273 | |
| Sun Right Ascension | 10h44m07.3s | |
| Sun Declination | +08°01'09.8" | |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'50.9" | |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" | |
| Moon Right Ascension | 10h44m32.4s | |
| Moon Declination | +08°22'14.7" | |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'06.4" | |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°59'06.9" | |
| ΔT | 76.4 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.
