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 sec (3 m 49 s)
Coordinates 14°18′N 138°24′E / 14.3°N 138.4°E / 14.3; 138.4
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.

Solar eclipses of 1986-1989

Each member 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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1986-1989
Ascending node   Descending node
SarosMap SarosMap
119
April 9, 1986
Partial
124
October 3, 1986
Hybrid
129
March 29, 1987
Hybrid
134
September 23, 1987
Annular
139
March 18, 1988
Total
144
September 11, 1988
Annular
149
March 7, 1989
Partial
154
August 31, 1989
Partial

Saros 134

It is a part of Saros cycle 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with 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.[1]

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