Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990

Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990
Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.9457
Magnitude	0.967
Maximum eclipse
Duration	123 sec (2 m 3 s)
Coordinates	71°00′S 22°12′W / 71°S 22.2°W
Max. width of band	373 km (232 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	19:31:24
References
Saros	121 (59 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9486

An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 26, 1990. 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.

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 1990[]

An annular solar eclipse on January 26.
A total lunar eclipse on February 9.
A total solar eclipse on July 22.
A partial lunar eclipse on August 6.

Solar eclipses of 1990–1992[]

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] This semester series contains only 7 eclipses.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1990–1992
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
111	1989 February 6	-1.56550	116	1989 August 1	1.58396
121	1990 January 26 Annular	-0.94571	126	1990 July 22 Total	0.75972
131	1991 January 15 Annular	-0.27275	136 From Playas del Coco	1991 July 11 Total	-0.00412
141	1992 January 4 Annular	0.40908	146	1992 June 30 Total	-0.75120
151	1992 December 24 Partial	1.07106	156	1993 June 20	-1.56439

Saros 121[]

Solar saros 121, repeating every about 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, contains 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on April 25, 944. It contains total eclipses from July 10, 1070, to October 9, 1809. It contains hybrid eclipses on October 20, 1827, and October 30, 1845. It contains annular eclipses from November 11, 1863, to February 28, 2044. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 7, 2206. The longest total eclipse occurred on June 21, 1629, with greatest duration of totality at 6 minutes and 20 seconds. The longest annular eclipse will occur on February 28, 2044, with greatest duration of annularity at 2 minutes and 27 seconds.^[2]

Series members 49–65 occur between 1801 and 2100:
49	50	51
October 9, 1809	October 20, 1827	October 30, 1845
52	53	54
November 11, 1863	November 21, 1881	December 3, 1899
55	56	57
December 14, 1917	December 25, 1935	January 5, 1954
58	59	60
January 16, 1972	January 26, 1990	February 7, 2008
61	62	63
February 17, 2026	February 28, 2044	March 11, 2062
64	65
March 21, 2080	April 1, 2098

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 ascending node.

21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058
June 21	April 8–9	January 26	November 13–14	September 1–2
107	109	111	113	115
June 21, 1963	April 9, 1967	January 26, 1971	November 14, 1974	September 2, 1978
117	119	121	123	125
June 21, 1982	April 9, 1986	January 26, 1990	November 13, 1993	September 2, 1997
127	129	131	133	135
June 21, 2001	April 8, 2005	January 26, 2009	November 13, 2012	September 1, 2016
137	139	141	143	145
June 21, 2020	April 8, 2024	January 26, 2028	November 14, 2031	September 2, 2035
147	149	151	153	155
June 21, 2039	April 9, 2043	January 26, 2047	November 14, 2050	September 2, 2054
157
June 21, 2058