Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990

Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.9457
Magnitude	0.967
Maximum eclipse
Duration	123 sec (2 m 3 s)
Coordinates	71°00′S 22°12′W / 71°S 22.2°W
Max. width of band	373 km (232 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	19:31:24
References
Saros	121 (59 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9486

An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 26, 1990. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1990-1992

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 1990–1992

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
121	January 26, 1990 Annular		126	July 22, 1990 Total
131	January 15, 1991 Annular		136	July 11, 1991 Total
141	January 4, 1992 Annular		146	June 30, 1992 Total
151	December 24, 1992 Partial

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).

21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058 

June 21	April 8-9	January 26	November 13-14	September 1-2
117	119	121	123	125
June 21, 1982	April 9, 1986	January 26, 1990	November 13, 1993	September 2, 1997
127	129	131	133	135
June 21, 2001	April 8, 2005	January 26, 2009	November 13, 2012	September 1, 2016
137	139	141	143	145
June 21, 2020	April 8, 2024	January 26, 2028	November 14, 2031	September 2, 2035
147	149	151	153	155
June 21, 2039	April 9, 2043	January 26, 2047	November 14, 2050	September 2, 2054
157
June 21, 2058

Notes

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements