Solar eclipse of April 18, 1977
Annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, April 18, 1977, with a magnitude of 0.9449. 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. Annularity was visible in South West Africa (today's Namibia), Angola, Zambia, southeastern Zaire (today's Democratic Republic of Congo), northern Malawi, Tanzania, Seychelles and the whole British Indian Ocean Territory.
Solar eclipse of April 18, 1977 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.399 |
Magnitude | 0.9449 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 424 s (7 min 4 s) |
Coordinates | 11.9°S 28.3°E / -11.9; 28.3 |
Max. width of band | 220 km (140 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 10:31:30 |
References | |
Saros | 138 (29 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9458 |