The solar saros series 134 began with partial eclipses on 22 June 1248, has a total of seventy-one events, and will end with a partial eclipse on 06 August 2510. This saros series has already completed all 34 events in the first three divisions and is currently in division four: the thirty Annular eclipses.

With future eclipse events, the duration of the upcoming Annular eclipses will gradually increase until event 52 on 10 January 2164, which will last 10 minutes and 55 seconds, the longest eclipse duration of this entire saros series.

Subsequent annular eclipses after event 52, will decrease in duration until event 64, the last of the Annular eclipses on 21 May 2384 which event will only last 4 minutes and 28 seconds. The annular eclipses is the fourth and largest division of this saros series and this saros series is currently approaching the eleventh of thirty Annular eclipse events, event number 45.

After the last Annular eclipse, event 64 has occurred, this saros series will continue into the fifth division and continue with seven partial eclipses, beginning with event 65 on 01 June 2402 and concluding with event 71, on 06 August 2510.

Saros Series 134 includes the following events:

Event 45 will be an annular eclipse lasting 5 minutes and 17 seconds.

Event 44, an annular eclipse, which passed over North America through the southwestern United States before moving into Central and northern South America was the last event in this saros series.

The next solar eclipse of saros series 134 will be event 44, an annular eclipse and occur on 14 October 2023.

The maximum eclipse will be on 14 October at 12:59:29 CT.

With the moon having reached apogee on 10 October 2023, this eclipse occurs only 4.6 days after apogee, thus causing the moon′s apparent diameter will be smaller than the disk of the sun. Thus this eclipse will not be total, but an annular eclipse.

Awake just before seven this morning to see the last few minutes of the colorful sunrise. I dress, step outside, grab my shower bag, towel, some clean clothes and walk to the shower house for some hot water. Upon my return to the jammer, I get out my stove, skillet and begin cooking eggs with vegetables for breakfast together with hot coffee and hot tea. When the meal is done, I step inside the jammer to eat, after which, I clean and then put away all of kitchen gear.

For the next several days I stay here in the state park and work on several things that currently have my attention. One particular item is a local map for me to find the centerline if the annular eclipse that will cross in this region of Oregon next Saturday, 14 October 2023. My plan is to be on that centerline long before the sun meets the moon as they ride out this celestial joining across the daytime sky.

To prepare for this encounter, I have created four view points were from I may have a possible location to view the eclipse. I then showed my map to the state park ranger and he said that the View Point 1 by Chandler State Wayside would not be a good location because it is in a valley and on either side of the valley are high trees. So, when I leave Goose lake Campground Saturday morning, I will first drive north on US 398 and then be turning east on SH 140 and drive to the town of Adel, Oregon to look at the lake bed just north of that town, View Point 2. It should not take long to decide on the View Point location and if I have to, I have coordinates for two more locations where the centerline of the eclipse crosses SH 140.

Another consideration is that for days now, there have been clouds in the sky over the campground where I have been camping

The Moon's antumbra, the portion of its shadow that causes the annular eclipse, will first make landfall on the coast of Oregon. Here, the Moon will begin to move in front of the Sun's disk at 8:04 am local time. It will then move across parts of Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and right through the Great Plains of Texas and can be seen in Midland and San Antonio

Along the way, the shadow will touch peripheral areas of northeast California, south west Idaho, southwest Colorado, and northeast Arizona.

While still in the US, the shadow will pass through the coastal plains region of south Texas, exiting from Corpus Christi into the Gulf of Mexico at near North Padre Sea Wall at 27.606500, -97.207800 with a duration of 3h, 12 m, 9 s.

Farther south, the eclipse will be visible in parts of the Yucatán peninsula in southwestern Mexico and several Central American countries, including Belize, Honduras, and Panama. It will then sweep across central Colombia and a large stretch of northern Brazil before coming to an end in the Atlantic ocean, just off Natal, Brazil.