Solar eclipse of February 16, 1999

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Solar eclipse of February 16, 1999
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Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma -0.4726
Magnitude 0.9928
Maximum eclipse
Duration40 sec (0 m 40 s)
Coordinates 39°48′S93°54′E / 39.8°S 93.9°E / -39.8; 93.9
Max. width of band29 km (18 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse6:34:38
References
Saros 140 (28 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9505

An annular solar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, February 16, 1999. 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 the southern Indian Ocean including the Prince Edward Islands, South Africa (the northern part of Marion Island and the whole Prince Edward Island), and Australia.

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The exact time of the greatest eclipse took place on Tuesday, February 16, 1999, at 06:33:34.6 a.m. UTC, but occurring only 4.3 days before perigee (Perigee on Saturday, February 20, 1999, at 02:33 p.m. UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was 0.7% larger than average, and the Moon's distance from the Earth was 377,067 km (234,299 mi).

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Eclipses of 1999

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1997–2000
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
120
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Chita, Russia
1997 March 09
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Total
0.91830125 1997 September 02
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Partial (south)
-1.03521
130
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Total eclipse near Guadeloupe
1998 February 26
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Total
0.23909135 1998 August 22
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Annular
-0.26441
140 1999 February 16
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Annular
-0.47260145
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Totality from France
1999 August 11
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Total
0.50623
150 2000 February 05
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Partial (south)
-1.22325155 2000 July 31
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Partial (north)
1.21664

Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 140

It is a part of Saros cycle 140, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 16, 1512. It contains total eclipses from July 21, 1656 through November 9, 1836, hybrid eclipses from November 20, 1854 through December 23, 1908, and annular eclipses from January 3, 1927 through December 7, 2485. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 1, 2774. The longest duration of totality was 4 minutes, 10 seconds on August 12, 1692.

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
116118120122124
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July 11, 1953
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April 30, 1957
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February 15, 1961
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December 4, 1964
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September 22, 1968
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July 10, 1972
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April 29, 1976
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February 16, 1980
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December 4, 1983
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September 23, 1987
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July 11, 1991
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April 29, 1995
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February 16, 1999
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December 4, 2002
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September 22, 2006
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July 11, 2010
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April 29, 2014
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February 15, 2018
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December 4, 2021
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September 21, 2025
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July 11, 2029

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.

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