Solar eclipse of August 22, 1998

Solar eclipse of August 22, 1998
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.2644
Magnitude	0.9734
Maximum eclipse
Duration	194 sec (3 m 14 s)
Coordinates	3°00′S 145°24′E / 3°S 145.4°E
Max. width of band	99 km (62 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	2:07:11
References
Saros	135 (38 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9504

An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 22, 1998. 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.

Images

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1997-2000

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 1997 to 2000
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
120 Chita, Russia	March 9, 1997 Total		125	September 2, 1997 Partial
130	February 26, 1998 Total		135	August 22, 1998 Annular
140	February 16, 1999 Annular		145 Totality from France	August 11, 1999 Total
150	February 5, 2000 Partial		155	July 31, 2000 Partial
Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

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).

21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between June 10, 1964 and August 21, 2036
June 10–11	March 27–29	January 15–16	November 3	August 21–22
117	119	121	123	125
June 10, 1964	March 28, 1968	January 16, 1972	November 3, 1975	August 22, 1979
127	129	131	133	135
June 11, 1983	March 29, 1987	January 15, 1991	November 3, 1994	August 22, 1998
137	139	141	143	145
June 10, 2002	March 29, 2006	January 15, 2010	November 3, 2013	August 21, 2017
147	149	151	153	155
June 10, 2021	March 29, 2025	January 14, 2029	November 3, 2032	August 21, 2036

Notes

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements

Photos:

• An Annular Eclipse of the Sun APOD 8/24/1998, from Mersing on the East Coast of Malaysia