Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982
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| Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Partial |
| Gamma | 1.1293 |
| Magnitude | 0.735 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 9:32:09 |
| References | |
| Saros | 122 (56 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9471 |
A partial solar eclipse occurred on December 15, 1982. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 1982-1985
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.
Note: Partial solar eclipses on January 25, 1982 and July 20, 1982 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 117 |  June 21, 1982 Partial |
122 | December 15, 1982 Partial |
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| 127 |  June 11, 1983 Total |
132 |  December 4, 1983 Annular |
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| 137 |  May 30, 1984 Annular |
142 |  November 22, 1984 Total |
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| 147 |  May 19, 1985 Partial |
152 | 150px November 12, 1985 Total |
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Metonic cycle
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 21 eclipse events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047 | ||||
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| July 21-22 | May 9-11 | February 26-27 | December 14-15 | October 2-3 |
| 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
 July 22, 1971 |
 May 11, 1975 |
 February 26, 1979 |
December 15, 1982 |
 October 3, 1986 |
| 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
 July 22, 1990 |
 May 10, 1994 |
 February 26, 1998 |
 December 14, 2001 |
 October 3, 2005 |
| 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
 July 22, 2009 |
 May 10, 2013 |
 February 26, 2017 |
 December 14, 2020 |
 October 2, 2024 |
| 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
 July 22, 2028 |
 May 9, 2032 |
 February 27, 2036 |
 December 15, 2039 |
 October 3, 2043 |
| 156 | ||||
| 150px July 22, 2047 |
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External links
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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