Solar eclipse of September 23, 1987

Solar eclipse of September 23, 1987
Solar eclipse of September 23, 1987
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.2787
Magnitude	0.9634
Maximum eclipse
Duration	229 s (3 min 49 s)
Coordinates	14°18′N 138°24′E / 14.3°N 138.4°E
Max. width of band	137 km (85 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	3:12:22
References
Saros	134 (42 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9481

An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 23, 1987. 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. Annularity was visible in the Soviet Union (today's Kazakhstan), China (including Shanghai), southwestern Mongolia, Okinawa Islands of Japan except Kume Island and the southwestern tip of Kerama Islands, the Federal States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Rotuma Islands of Fiji, Wallis Islands and West Samoa (the name changed to Samoa later).

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1986-1989

There were 8 solar eclipses between April 9, 1986 and August 31, 1989.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1986 to 1989
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
119	1986 April 9 Partial	−1.08215	124	1986 October 3 Hybrid	0.99305
129	1987 March 29 Hybrid	−0.30531	134	1987 September 23 Annular	0.27869
139	1988 March 18 Total	0.41879	144	1988 September 11 Annular	−0.46811
149	1989 March 7 Partial	1.09815	154	1989 August 31 Partial	−1.19279

Saros 134

It is a part of Saros cycle 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554 and hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843, and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node.^[1]

Series members 32–48 occur between 1801 and 2100:
32	33	34
June 6, 1807	June 16, 1825	June 27, 1843
35	36	37
July 8, 1861	July 19, 1879	July 29, 1897
38	39	40
August 10, 1915	August 21, 1933	September 1, 1951
41	42	43
September 11, 1969	September 23, 1987	October 3, 2005
44	45	46
October 14, 2023	October 25, 2041	November 5, 2059
47	48
November 15, 2077	November 27, 2095