Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995

Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.3382
Magnitude	0.9497
Maximum eclipse
Duration	397 sec (6 m 37 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	196 km (122 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	17:33:20
References
Saros	138 (30 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9497

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 29, 1995. 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 1993-1996

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 1993–1996

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
118	May 21, 1993 Partial		123	November 13, 1993 Partial
128	May 10, 1994 Annular		133	November 3, 1994 Total
138	April 29, 1995 Annular		143 150px Totality at Dundlod, India	October 24, 1995 Total
148	April 17, 1996 Partial		153	October 12, 1996 Partial

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:

• A Fleeting Eclipse, annular eclipse from Macara, Ecuador APOD 8/27/1997,