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 |
| 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.
Related eclipses
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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 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]
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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