Solar eclipse of February 16, 1999

Solar eclipse of February 16, 1999
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.4726
Magnitude	0.9928
Maximum eclipse
Duration	40 sec (0 m 40 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	29 km (18 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	6:34:38
References
Saros	140 (28 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9505

An annular solar eclipse occurred on February 16, 1999. 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 1997-2000

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 1997 to 2000

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
120 Chita, Russia	March 9, 1997 Total		125	September 2, 1997 Partial
130	February 26, 1998 Total		135	August 22, 1998 Annular
140	February 16, 1999 Annular		145 Totality Cornwall, United Kingdom	August 11, 1999 Total
150	February 5, 2000 Partial		155	July 31, 2000 Partial
Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 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 21 eclipse events between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029.

References

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