Solar eclipse of May 20, 1966
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 20, 1966. 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 from Guinea (including the capital city Conakry), Mali, Algeria, Libya, Greece, Turkey, the Soviet Union (today's Russia and Kazakhstan) and China. The Sun's altitude was 70°.
Solar eclipse of May 20, 1966 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.3467 |
Magnitude | 0.9991 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 5 s (0 min 5 s) |
Coordinates | 39.2°N 26.4°E / 39.2; 26.4 |
Max. width of band | 3 km (1.9 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 9:39:02 |
References | |
Saros | 137 (33 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9434 |