Solar eclipse of September 1, 2016

Solar eclipse of September 1, 2016
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Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.333
Magnitude 0.9736
Maximum eclipse
Duration 186 sec (3 m 6 s)
Coordinates 10°42′S 37°48′E / 10.7°S 37.8°E / -10.7; 37.8
Max. width of band 100 km (62 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 9:08:02
References
Saros 135 (39 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9544

An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 1, 2016. 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. In this case, annularity can be observed in Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, and Reunion.

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Solar eclipses from 2015 to 2018

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.

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).

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