| Solar eclipse of September 23, 1987 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.2787 |
| Magnitude | 0.9634 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 3m 49s |
| Coordinates | 14.3N 138.4E |
| Max. width of band | 137 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 3:12:22 |
| References | |
| Saros | 134 (42 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9481 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 11, 1987. 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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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]
Series members 38-48 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 38 | 39 | 40 |
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August 10, 1915 |
August 21, 1933 |
September 1, 1951 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 |
September 11, 1969 |
September 23, 1987 |
October 3, 2005 |
| 44 | 45 | 46 |
October 14, 2023 |
October 25, 2041 |
November 5, 2059 |
| 47 | 48 | |
November 15, 2077 |
November 27, 2095 |
