Solar eclipse of October 23, 1976

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Solar eclipse of October 23, 1976
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Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Total
Gamma -0.327
Magnitude 1.0572
Maximum eclipse
Duration 286 sec (4 m 46 s)
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band 199 km (124 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 5:13:45
References
Saros 133 (43 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9457

A total solar eclipse occurred on October 23, 1976. 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. This total solar eclipse began at sunrise in Tanzania near the border with Burundi, with the path of totality passing just north of the large Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. It then crossed the Indian Ocean before making landfall in southeastern Australia. The largest city that saw totality was Melbourne. After leaving the Australian mainland, the path of totality left the Earth's surface just north of the north island of New Zealand.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1975-1978

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 1975-1978
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Saros Map
118 SE1975May11P.png
May 11, 1975
Partial
123 SE1975Nov03P.png
November 3, 1975
Partial
128 SE1976Apr29A.png
April 29, 1976
Annular
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October 23, 1976
Total
138 SE1977Apr18A.png
April 18, 1977
Annular
143 SE1977Oct12T.png
October 12, 1977
Total
148 150px
April 7, 1978
Partial
153 150px
October 2, 1978
Partial

Saros 133

Solar Saros 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435, through January 13, 1526, with a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544. It has total eclipses from February 3, 1562, through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850.[1] The total eclipses of this saros series are getting shorter and farther south with each iteration.

Series members 30-49 occur between 1742 and 2100
30 31 32
June 3, 1742 June 13, 1760 150px
June 24, 1778
33 34 35
July 4, 1796 July 17, 1814 July 27, 1832
36 37 38
August 7, 1850 150px
August 18, 1868
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August 29, 1886
39 40 41
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September 9, 1904
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September 21, 1922
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October 1, 1940
42 43 44
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October 12, 1958
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October 23, 1976
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November 3, 1994
45 46 47
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November 13, 2012
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November 25, 2030
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December 5, 2048
48 49 50
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December 17, 2066
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December 27, 2084
January 8, 2103

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 August 12, 1942 and August 11, 2018.

August 10-12 May 30 March 18 January 4-5 October 23-24
115 117 119 121 123
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August 12, 1942
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May 30, 1946
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March 18, 1950
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January 5, 1954
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October 23, 1957
125 127 129 131 133
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August 11, 1961
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May 30, 1965
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March 18, 1969
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January 4, 1973
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October 23, 1976
135 137 139 141 143
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August 10, 1980
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May 30, 1984
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March 18, 1988
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January 4, 1992
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October 24, 1995
145 147 149 151 153
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August 11, 1999
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May 31, 2003
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March 19, 2007
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January 4, 2011
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October 23, 2014
155
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August 11, 2018

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