Saros cycle series 141 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's ascending node, repeats every 18 years, 11 days containing 70 eclipses, 41 of which are umbral. The first eclipse in this series was on 19 May 1613 and the last will be on 23 June 2857. The most recent eclipse was an annular eclipse on 15 January 2010 and the next will be an annular eclipse on 26 January 2028. This series contains only annular eclipses from 4 August 1739 through 14 October 2460, with no total or hybrid eclipses.

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of the orbit on January 15, 2010, with a magnitude of 0.91903. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. It was the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium, and the longest until December 23, 3043, with the length of maximum eclipse of 11 minutes, 7.8 seconds, and the longest duration of 11 minutes, 10.7 seconds. This is about 4 minutes longer than total solar eclipses could ever get.