A hybrid
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
occurred on October 3, 1986. A hybrid eclipse starts and ends as an annular, but is total in the middle around the point of greatest eclipse. Totality occurred for a very short time (calculated at 0.08 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°. The path width was just about 800 meters wide.
This eclipse was the last central eclipse of
saros 124 and the only hybrid eclipse of that saros.
Solar Saros 124
This is the eclipse number 53 of Solar Saros 124.
Saros cycle 124, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 6, 1049. It contains total eclipses from June 12, 1211 through September 22, 1968 with one hybrid solar eclipse on October 3, 1986. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on May 11, 2347. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 46 seconds on May 3, 1734.
Eclipse date: 3 October 1986
Saros length: 1298 years
Saros duration past: 937 years
Related eclipses
Eclipses of 1986
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A partial solar eclipse on April 9.
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A total lunar eclipse on April 24.
* A hybrid solar eclipse on October 3.
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A total lunar eclipse on October 17.
Solar eclipses of 1986–1989
Saros 124
Metonic cycle
References
External links
03 October 1986: A Geometrically Remarkable Eclipse
1986 in science
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October 1986 events
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