Solar eclipse of August 22, 1979
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of the orbit on Wednesday, August 22, 1979. 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. A small annular eclipse covered only 93% of the Sun in a very broad path, 953 km wide at maximum, and lasted 6 minutes and 3 seconds. This was the second solar eclipse in 1979, the first one a total solar eclipse on February 26.
Solar eclipse of August 22, 1979 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.9632 |
Magnitude | 0.9329 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 363 s (6 min 3 s) |
Coordinates | 59.6°S 108.5°W / -59.6; -108.5 |
Max. width of band | 953 km (592 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 17:22:38 |
References | |
Saros | 125 (52 of 73) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9463 |
This was the last of 40 umbral eclipses of Solar Saros 125. The first was in 1276 and the last was in 1979. The total duration is 703 years.