Solar eclipse of February 26, 1998

Solar eclipse of February 26, 1998
Solar eclipse of February 26, 1998
	Total eclipse near Guadeloupe
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.2391
Magnitude	1.0441
Maximum eclipse
Duration	249 sec (4 m 9 s)
Coordinates	4°42′N 82°42′W / 4.7°N 82.7°W
Max. width of band	151 km (94 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	17:29:27
References
Saros	130 (51 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9503

A total solar eclipse occurred on February 26, 1998. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality was visible in the Galápagos Islands, Panama, Colombia, the Paraguaná Peninsula in northwestern Venezuela, all of Aruba, most of Curaçao and the northwestern tip of Bonaire (belonging to Netherlands Antilles which dissolved later), all of Montserrat, Guadeloupe and Antigua and Barbuda.

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 1998[]

A total solar eclipse on February 26.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 13.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 8.
An annular solar eclipse on August 22.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on September 6.

Solar eclipses 1997–2000[]

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 1997–2000
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
120 Chita, Russia	1997 March 09 Total	0.91830	125	1997 September 02 Partial (south)	-1.03521
130 Total eclipse near Guadelope	1998 February 26 Total	0.23909	135	1998 August 22 Annular	-0.26441
140	1999 February 16 Annular	-0.47260	145 Totality from France	1999 August 11 Total	0.50623
150	2000 February 05 Partial (south)	-1.22325	155	2000 July 31 Partial (north)	1.21664
Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 130[]

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 20, 1096. It contains total eclipses from April 5, 1475 through July 18, 2232. There are no annular eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on October 25, 2394. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 41 seconds on July 11, 1619. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.^[2]

Series members 43–56 between 1853 and 2300
43	44	45
November 30, 1853	December 12, 1871	December 22, 1889
46	47	48
January 3, 1908	January 14, 1926	January 25, 1944
49	50	51
February 5, 1962	February 16, 1980	February 26, 1998
52	53	54
March 9, 2016	March 20, 2034	March 30, 2052
55	56	57
April 11, 2070	April 21, 2088	May 3, 2106
58	59	60
May 14, 2124	May 25, 2142	June 4, 2160
61	62	63
June 16, 2178	June 26, 2196	July 8, 2214
64	65	66
July 18, 2232	July 30, 2250	August 9, 2268
67
August 20, 2286

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

21 events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 21–22	May 9–11	February 26–27	December 14–15	October 2–3
116	118	120	122	124
July 22, 1971	May 11, 1975	February 26, 1979	December 15, 1982	October 3, 1986
126	128	130	132	134
July 22, 1990	May 10, 1994	February 26, 1998	December 14, 2001	October 3, 2005
136	138	140	142	144
July 22, 2009	May 10, 2013	February 26, 2017	December 14, 2020	October 2, 2024
146	148	150	152	154
July 22, 2028	May 9, 2032	February 27, 2036	December 15, 2039	October 3, 2043
156
July 22, 2047