Solar eclipse of October 23, 1976
Solar eclipse of October 23, 1976 | |
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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.
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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.
Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
118 | May 11, 1975 Partial |
123 | November 3, 1975 Partial |
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128 | April 29, 1976 Annular |
133 | October 23, 1976 Total |
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138 | April 18, 1977 Annular |
143 | October 12, 1977 Total |
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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.
30 | 31 | 32 |
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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 |
150px August 29, 1886 |
39 | 40 | 41 |
September 9, 1904 |
150px September 21, 1922 |
150px October 1, 1940 |
42 | 43 | 44 |
October 12, 1958 |
October 23, 1976 |
November 3, 1994 |
45 | 46 | 47 |
November 13, 2012 |
November 25, 2030 |
December 5, 2048 |
48 | 49 | 50 |
December 17, 2066 |
150px 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 |
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115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
August 12, 1942 |
May 30, 1946 |
March 18, 1950 |
January 5, 1954 |
October 23, 1957 |
125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
August 11, 1961 |
150px May 30, 1965 |
March 18, 1969 |
January 4, 1973 |
October 23, 1976 |
135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
August 10, 1980 |
May 30, 1984 |
March 18, 1988 |
January 4, 1992 |
October 24, 1995 |
145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
August 11, 1999 |
May 31, 2003 |
March 19, 2007 |
January 4, 2011 |
October 23, 2014 |
155 | ||||
August 11, 2018 |
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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