Solar eclipse of August 22, 1998
Solar eclipse of August 22, 1998 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.2644 |
Magnitude | 0.9734 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 194 s (3 min 14 s) |
Coordinates | 3°00′S 145°24′E / 3°S 145.4°E |
Max. width of band | 99 km (62 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 2:07:11 |
References | |
Saros | 135 (38 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9504 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 22, 1998. 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.
Images
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1997-2000
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[1]
Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
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Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
120 Chita, Russia |
1997 March 09 Total |
0.91830 | 125 | 1997 September 02 Partial (south) |
−1.03521 | |
130 Total eclipse near Guadeloupe |
1998 February 26 Total |
0.23909 | 135 | 1998 August 22 Annular |
−0.26441 | |
140 | 1999 February 16 Annular |
−0.47260 | 145 Totality from France |
1999 August 11 Total |
0.50623 | |
150 | 2000 February 05 Partial (south) |
−1.22325 | 155 | 2000 July 31 Partial (north) |
1.21664 |
Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Metonic series
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.
21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between June 10, 1964, and August 21, 2036 | ||||
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June 10–11 | March 27–29 | January 15–16 | November 3 | August 21–22 |
117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
June 10, 1964 |
March 28, 1968 |
January 16, 1972 |
November 3, 1975 |
August 22, 1979 |
127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
June 11, 1983 |
March 29, 1987 |
January 15, 1991 |
November 3, 1994 |
August 22, 1998 |
137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
June 10, 2002 |
March 29, 2006 |
January 15, 2010 |
November 3, 2013 |
August 21, 2017 |
147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
June 10, 2021 |
March 29, 2025 |
January 14, 2029 |
November 3, 2032 |
August 21, 2036 |
Notes
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
Photos:
- An Annular Eclipse of the Sun APOD 8/24/1998, from Mersing on the East Coast of Malaysia