Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006

Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006
Partial from São Paulo, Brazil
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.4062
Magnitude	0.9352
Maximum eclipse
Duration	429 sec (7 m 9 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	261 km (162 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	11:41:16
References
Saros	144 (16 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9522

An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 22, 2006. 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 2004-2008

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 2004–2007

Ascending node|124		2004 October 14 Partial (north)
129		Descending node
Saros		Map	Saros	Map
119		2004 April 19 Partial (south)	2005 April 8 Hybrid	134 Annular from Spain	2005 October 3 Annular
139 150px Totality from Side, Turkey		2006 March 29 Total	144 Partial from São Paulo, Brazil	2006 September 22 Annular
149		2007 March 19 Partial (north)	154	2007 September 11 Partial (south)

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.

External links

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

Photos:

• Spaceweather.com eclipse gallery
• Photos of solar eclipse around the world