Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995

Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.3382
Magnitude	0.9497
Maximum eclipse
Duration	397 sec (6 m 37 s)
Coordinates	4°48′S 79°24′W / 4.8°S 79.4°W
Max. width of band	196 km (122 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	17:33:20
References
Saros	138 (30 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9497

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 29, 1995. 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 Peru, southeastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia and Brazil.

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Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 1995[]

A partial lunar eclipse on April 15.
An annular solar eclipse on April 29.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on October 8.
A total solar eclipse on October 24.

Solar eclipses 1993–1996[]

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1993–1996
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
118	1993 May 21 Partial	1.13720	123	1993 November 13 Partial	-1.04114
128 Partial from Bismarck, ND	1994 May 10 Annular	0.40771	133 Totality at Bolivia	1994 November 3 Total	-0.35216
138	1995 April 29 Annular	-0.33821	143 Totality at Dundlod, India	1995 October 24 Total	0.35176
148	1996 April 17 Partial	-1.05796	153	1996 October 12 Partial	1.12265

Saros 138[]

It is a part of Saros cycle 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598, through February 18, 2482 with a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500. It has total eclipses from March 12, 2518, through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. The longest duration of totality will be only 56 seconds on April 3, 2554.

Series members 25–35 occur between 1901 and 2100:
25	26	27
March 6, 1905	March 17, 1923	March 27, 1941
28	29	30
April 8, 1959	April 18, 1977	April 29, 1995
31	32	33
May 10, 2013	May 21, 2031	May 31, 2049
34	35
June 11, 2067	June 22, 2085

Metonic series[]

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12	April 29–30	February 15–16	December 4–5	September 21–23
116	118	120	122	124
July 11, 1953	April 30, 1957	February 15, 1961	December 4, 1964	September 22, 1968
126	128	130	132	134
July 10, 1972	April 29, 1976	February 16, 1980	December 4, 1983	September 23, 1987
136	138	140	142	144
July 11, 1991	April 29, 1995	February 16, 1999	December 4, 2002	September 22, 2006
146	148	150	152	154
July 11, 2010	April 29, 2014	February 15, 2018	December 4, 2021	September 21, 2025
156	158	160	162	164
July 11, 2029