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Annular Solar Eclipse Crosses the midwestern United States

Starts 06/11/2048 12:57PM

Point of greatest eclipse at sea, off the midwestern United States

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NASA's^[1][2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 12:57:21 UT on 2048-06-11 (12:58:52 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 128. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.

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Annular Solar Eclipse Crosses the midwestern United States

The Moon's shadow touches down at 12:57:21 UT on 2048-06-11, and the annular phase lasts up to 4 minutes 58 seconds along a path 271.5 km wide crossing the midwestern United States, Quebec, Ontario, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Afganistan. A partial eclipse is visible from North America, the Caribbean, northern Africa, Europe and western Asia.

An annular solar eclipse on 2048 Jun 11, catalogued by NASA/GSFC as sequence 09615, relative number 17, of Saros series 128^[1][2][3]
Greatest Eclipse falls at 12:57:21.5 UT at 63°41.3'N 011°30.5'W, with the Sun 49.4° up, a path 271.5 km wide and a central duration of 04m58.3s^[1]
Greatest Duration is 85 seconds earlier at 12:55:56 UT at 63°44'N 012°42'W, with the same 271.5 km width and the same 04m58.3s duration, which the Google-map page also states^[1][2]
The antumbral shadow is tabulated at 120-second intervals from 11:28 UT to 14:26 UT, the central line running from 38°22.7'N 101°35.2'W at the opening limits to 34°56.1'N 070°25.6'E at the closing limits^[1]
At the path’s ends the Sun is on the horizon and the path is much wider but annularity shorter — 376 km and 04m04.6s at the start, 375 km and 04m04.0s at the end — against 271.5 km and 04m58.3s at greatest eclipse^[1]
The Saros 128 catalog gives the same instant in Terrestrial Dynamical Time as 2048 Jun 11 12:58:53 TD with ΔT = 92 s, gamma 0.6468, magnitude 0.9441, path width 272 km and central duration 04m58s — rounded against the path page’s 271.5 km^[1][3]
Annularity can only be seen between the blue northern and southern path limits and is longest on the red central line; yellow lines mark maximum eclipse at 10-minute intervals^[2]
Predictions use the VSOP87/ELP2000-85 solar and lunar ephemerides with ΔT = 90.7 seconds, and exclude the lunar limb profile, whose corrections ‘may shift the limits of the eclipse path north or south by ~1-3 kilometers, and change the eclipse duration by ~1-3 seconds’^[1][2]
Saros 128 runs 1298.17 years over 73 solar eclipses, from a partial on 0984 Aug 29 to a partial on 2282 Nov 01; 32 are annular against only 4 total, and this eclipse follows 2030 Jun 01 (05m21s) and precedes 2066 Jun 22 (04m40s) as its durations shorten^[3]
All calculations are by Fred Espenak, NASA’s GSFC, who ‘assumes full responsibility for their accuracy’^[1][2][3]

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eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpath/SEpath2001/SE2048Jun11Apath.html
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Jun 11, 2048 ✓· 33% of score
NASA's^[2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 12:57:21 UT on 2048-06-11 (12:58:52 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 128. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
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Annular Solar Eclipse of 2048-06-11 - Google map of the path
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 20, 2026· 33% of score
NASA's^[1][3] interactive map of this eclipse, showing the central path, the points of greatest eclipse and greatest duration, and local circumstances anywhere on the map.
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Saros series 128
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov· Added Sep 20, 2026· 33% of score
The saros series this eclipse belongs to, listing every eclipse in the same 18-year family and where each one fell.^[1]

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