| Solar eclipse of August 22, 1979 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.9632 |
| Magnitude | 0.9329 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 6m 3s |
| Coordinates | 59.6S 108.5W |
| Max. width of band | 953 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 17:22:38 |
| References | |
| Saros | 125 (52 of 73) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9463 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 22, 1979. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
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This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
| 120 | February 26, 1979 Total |
125 | August 22, 1979 Annular |
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| 130 | February 16, 1980 Total |
135 | August 10, 1980 Annular |
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| 140 | February 4, 1981 Annular |
145 | July 31, 1981 Total |
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| 150 | January 25, 1982 Partial |
155 | July 20, 1982 Partial |
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| Partial solar eclipses on June 21, 1982 and December 15, 1982 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set. | ||||||
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).
This series has 20 eclipse events between June 10, 1964 and August 21, 2036.
| June 10-11 | March 27-29 | January 15-16 | November 3 | August 21-22 |
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| 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
June 10, 1964 |
March 28, 1968 |
January 16, 1972 |
November 3, 1975 |
August 22, 1979 |
| 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
June 11, 1983 |
March 29, 1987 |
January 15, 1991 |
November 3, 1994 |
August 22, 1998 |
| 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
June 10, 2002 |
March 29, 2006 |
January 15, 2010 |
November 3, 2013 |
August 21, 2017 |
| 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
June 10, 2021 |
March 29, 2025 |
January 14, 2029 |
November 3, 2032 |
August 21, 2036 |
