Solar eclipse of April 17, 1996

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Solar eclipse of April 17, 1996
Course of the penumbra on the earth's surface
Course of the penumbra on the earth's surface
classification
Type Partially
area Antarctica , New Zealand , South Pacific
Saros cycle 148 (20 of 75)
Gamma value −1.0581
Greatest eclipse
place Southern Ocean , just north of Marie-Byrd-Land
location 71 ° 18 ′  S , 104 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 71 ° 18 ′  S , 104 ° 0 ′  W
time April 17, 1996 10:37:11 PM   UT
size 0.8793

The partial solar eclipse of April 17, 1996 occurred in the South Pacific, an area with very few islands. New Zealand was also in the eclipse zone, but there the degree of coverage was very low: Less than 10 percent of the solar disk was covered by the moon.

It was the last partial solar eclipse of Saros 148 in its construction phase, which was unusually long with 20 partial eclipses. The following solar eclipse of Saros 148 that took place on April 29, 2014 and its 42 following are all central eclipses. These are initially ring-shaped and later turn into total solar eclipses. This is followed by the dismantling phase with 12 further partial solar eclipses. In total, Saros 148, which is active from September 21, 1653 to December 12, 2987, includes 75 eclipses in the sequence:

  • 20 partial, 2 ring-shaped, 1 ring-total, 40 total and 12 partial

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