Solar eclipse of October 3, 1986

Solar eclipse of October 3, 1986
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Hybrid
Gamma	0.9931
Magnitude	1
Maximum eclipse
Duration	0 sec (0 m 0 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	1 km (0.62 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	19:06:15
References
Saros	124 (53 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9479

A total solar eclipse occurred on October 3, 1986. It was a hybrid event (normally, an eclipse which is annular for most of its duration, but with totality either at the beginning, end or at sometime during the eclipse) that did not officially satisfy the definition of totality. Totality occurred for a very short time (calculated at 0.2 seconds) in an area in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of the southern tip of Greenland. The path, on the surface of the Earth, was a narrow, tapered, horse-shoe, and visible only from a thin strip between Iceland and Greenland. At maximum eclipse the solar elevation was about 6°.

This eclipse was the last central eclipse of saros 124 and the only hybrid eclipse of that saros.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1986-1989

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 1986-1989

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
119	April 9, 1986 Partial		124	October 3, 1986 Hybrid
129	March 29, 1987 Hybrid		134	September 23, 1987 Annular
139	March 18, 1988 Total		144	September 11, 1988 Annular
149	March 7, 1989 Partial		154	August 31, 1989 Partial

Metonic cycle

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).

References

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

External links

• 03 October 1986: A Geometrically Remarkable Eclipse