| Solar eclipse of September 11, 1988 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.4681 |
| Magnitude | 0.9377 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 6m 57s |
| Coordinates | 20S 94.4E |
| Max. width of band | 258 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 4:44:29 |
| References | |
| Saros | 144 (15 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9483 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 11, 1988. 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 | |
| 119 | April 9, 1986 Partial |
124 | October 3, 1986 Hybrid |
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| 129 | March 29, 1987 Hybrid |
134 | September 23, 1987 Annular |
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| 139 | March 18, 1988 Total |
144 | September 11, 1988 Annular |
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| 149 | March 7, 1989 Partial |
154 | August 31, 1989 Partial |
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