Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990
| Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.9457 |
| Magnitude | 0.967 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 123 sec (2 m 3 s) |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Max. width of band | 373 km (232 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 19:31:24 |
| References | |
| Saros | 121 (59 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9486 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 26, 1990. 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 1990-1992
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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 121 | January 26, 1990 Annular |
126 | July 22, 1990 Total |
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| 131 | January 15, 1991 Annular |
136 |
July 11, 1991 Total |
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| 141 | January 4, 1992 Annular |
146 | June 30, 1992 Total |
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| 151 | December 24, 1992 Partial |
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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 June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058.
| June 21 | April 8-9 | January 26 | November 13-14 | September 1-2 |
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| 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
 June 21, 1982 |
 April 9, 1986 |
January 26, 1990 |
 November 13, 1993 |
 September 2, 1997 |
| 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
 June 21, 2001 |
 April 8, 2005 |
 January 26, 2009 |
 November 13, 2012 |
150px September 1, 2016 |
| 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
 June 21, 2020 |
 April 8, 2024 |
 January 26, 2028 |
 November 14, 2031 |
 September 2, 2035 |
| 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
 June 21, 2039 |
 April 9, 2043 |
150px January 26, 2047 |
 November 14, 2050 |
 September 2, 2054 |
| 157 | ||||
 June 21, 2058 |
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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