Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995

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Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma −0.3382
Magnitude 0.9497
Maximum eclipse
Duration397 s (6 min 37 s)
Coordinates 4°48′S79°24′W / 4.8°S 79.4°W / -4.8; -79.4
Max. width of band196 km (122 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse17:33:20
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. Annularity was visible in Peru, southeastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia and Brazil.

Contents

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Images

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Observations

A team of NASA's Johnson Space Center observed the annular eclipse near Puinahua District in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. The weather was clear and the observations were successful [8] .

Eclipses of 1995

Solar eclipses 1993–1996

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. [9]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1993 to 1996
Descending node Ascending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
118 1993 May 21
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Partial		1.13720123 1993 November 13
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Partial		−1.04114
128
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Partial from Bismarck, ND 		1994 May 10
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Annular		0.40771133
Diamond Ring, Total Solar Eclipse, Bolivia, 1994 (3183977692).jpg
Totality at Bolivia 		1994 November 3
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Total		−0.35216
138 1995 April 29
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Annular		−0.33821143
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Totality at Dundlod, India		 1995 October 24
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Total		0.35176
148 1996 April 17
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Partial		−1.05796153 1996 October 12
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Partial		1.12265

Saros 138

It is a part of Saros cycle 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598, through February 18, 2482 with a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500. It has total eclipses from March 12, 2518, through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. The longest duration of totality will be only 56 seconds on April 3, 2554.

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

21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12April 29–30February 15–16December 4–5September 21–23
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July 11, 1953 		SE1957Apr30A.png
April 30, 1957 		SE1961Feb15T.png
February 15, 1961 		SE1964Dec04P.png
December 4, 1964 		SE1968Sep22T.png
September 22, 1968
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July 10, 1972 		SE1976Apr29A.png
April 29, 1976 		SE1980Feb16T.png
February 16, 1980 		SE1983Dec04A.png
December 4, 1983 		SE1987Sep23A.png
September 23, 1987
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July 11, 1991 		SE1995Apr29A.png
April 29, 1995 		SE1999Feb16A.png
February 16, 1999 		SE2002Dec04T.png
December 4, 2002 		SE2006Sep22A.png
September 22, 2006
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July 11, 2010 		SE2014Apr29A.png
April 29, 2014 		SE2018Feb15P.png
February 15, 2018 		SE2021Dec04T.png
December 4, 2021 		SE2025Sep21P.png
September 21, 2025
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July 11, 2029

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References

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