Solar eclipse of February 4, 1981

Solar eclipse of February 4, 1981
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.4838
Magnitude 0.9937
Maximum eclipse
Duration 33 sec (0 m 33 s)
Coordinates 44°24′S 140°48′W / 44.4°S 140.8°W / -44.4; -140.8
Max. width of band 25 km (16 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 22:09:24
References
Saros 140 (27 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9466

An annular solar eclipse occurred on February 4–5, 1981. 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. It was visible in Australia, crossing over Tasmania and southern Stewart Island of New Zealand near sunrise on February 5th, and ended at sunset over western South America.

Solar eclipses of 1979-1982

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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