Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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 s (2 min 3 s) |
Coordinates | 71°S 22.2°W / -71; -22.2 |
Max. width of band | 373 km (232 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 19:31:24 |
References | |
Saros | 121 (59 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9486 |
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