Solar eclipse of February 26, 1998

A total solar eclipse occurred on February 26, 1998. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality was visible in Galápagos Islands, Panama, Colombia, northwestern Venezuela, the whole Aruba, most part of Curaçao and the northwestern tip of Bonaire (belonging to Netherlands Antilles which dissolved later), the whole Montserrat, Guadeloupe and Antigua and Barbuda.

Solar eclipse of February 26, 1998
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.2391
Magnitude1.0441
Maximum eclipse
Duration249 sec (4 m 9 s)
Coordinates4.7°N 82.7°W / 4.7; -82.7
Max. width of band151 km (94 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse17:29:27
References
Saros130 (51 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)9503

The 2001 Japanese film Orozco the Embalmer briefly featured the total eclipse as seen from Colombia.

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Total eclipse near Guadeloupe

Eclipses of 1998

Solar eclipses 1997–2000

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]

Saros 130

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 20, 1096. It contains total eclipses from April 5, 1475 through July 18, 2232. There are no annular eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on October 25, 2394. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 41 seconds on July 11, 1619. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.[2]

Metonic cycle

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

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.
  2. "Saros Series catalog of solar eclipses". NASA.

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