Solar eclipse of May 10, 1994

Solar eclipse of May 10, 1994
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.4077
Magnitude	0.9431
Maximum eclipse
Duration	373 sec (6 m 13 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	230 km (140 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	17:12:27
References
Saros	128 (57 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9495

An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 10, 1994. 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. The path of annularity crossed Baja California, Mexico, the United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1993-1996

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 1993–1996

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
118	May 21, 1993 Partial		123	November 13, 1993 Partial
128	May 10, 1994 Annular		133	November 3, 1994 Total
138	April 29, 1995 Annular		143 150px Totality at Dundlod, India	October 24, 1995 Total
148	April 17, 1996 Partial		153	October 12, 1996 Partial

Saros 128

It is a part of Saros cycle 128, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 16, 1417 through June 18, 1471 and hybrid eclipses from June 28, 1489 through July 31, 1543. Then it progresses into annular eclipses from August 11, 1561 through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 45 seconds on June 7, 1453.

Series members 52-62 occur between 1901 and 2100:

52	53	54
March 17, 1904	150px March 28, 1922	150px April 7, 1940
55	56	57
April 19, 1958	April 29, 1976	May 10, 1994
58	59	60
May 20, 2012	June 1, 2030	June 11, 2048
61	62
June 22, 2066	150px July 3, 2084

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).

External links

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

Photos:

• Solstice And Season's Eclipse APOD 21 December 2000, partial annular eclipse