Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
| Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995 | |
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 Animation of the annular solar eclipse of April 29, 1995 |
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| classification | |
| Type | Ring-shaped |
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Eastern Pacific , South America , Central America , Caribbean , Western Atlantic Annular: Western Pacific, Northern Peru, Ecuador, Northern Brazil |
| Saros cycle | 138 (30 of 70) |
| Gamma value | −0.3384 |
| Greatest eclipse | |
| Duration | 6 minutes 36.8 seconds |
| place | Peru , near the border with Ecuador |
| location | 4 ° 52 ′ S , 79 ° 24 ′ W |
| time | April 29, 1995 5:32:22 PM UT |
| size | 0.9497 |
During the annular solar eclipse on April 29, 1995 , the 195.5 km wide central zone ran over the sparsely populated Amazon basin . The duration of the ring-shaped phase was about 6½ minutes in the middle. Her Saros successor is the solar eclipse on May 10, 2013 , the ring-shaped zone of which will run over the equally sparsely populated northwestern Australia.
The Saros 138 began on June 6, 1472 with only 7 partial eclipses in Antarctica . This is followed by 50 ring-shaped eclipses, followed by a hybrid and 3 total solar eclipses. After 9 more partial eclipses in the Arctic , Saros 138 ends on July 11, 2716.
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Previous solar eclipses:
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Later solar eclipses:
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December 24, 1992 (partial) |
May 21, 1993 (partial) |
November 13, 1993 (partial) |
May 10, 1994 (circular) |
November 3, 1994 (total) |
April 29, 1995 (circular) |
October 24, 1995 (total) |
April 17, 1996 (partial) |
October 12, 1996 (partial) |
March 9, 1997 (total) |
September 2, 1997 (partial) |
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