Solar eclipse of August 22, 1979

Solar eclipse of August 22, 1979
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Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.9632
Magnitude	0.9329
Maximum eclipse
Duration	363 sec (6 m 3 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	953 km (592 mi)
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 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 1979-1982

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 1979 to 1982

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
120	February 26, 1979 Total		125	August 22, 1979 Annular
130	February 16, 1980 Total		135	August 10, 1980 Annular
140	February 4, 1981 Annular		145	July 31, 1981 Total
150	January 25, 1982 Partial		155	July 20, 1982 Partial
Partial solar eclipses on June 21, 1982 and December 15, 1982 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

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).

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
117	119	121	123	125
150px 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

References

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