Nature Partial Magnitude 0.6344 Saros 154 (5 of 71) Start date August 31, 1989 | Gamma -1.1928 Greatest eclipse 5:31:47 Catalog # (SE5000) 9485 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 31, 1989. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
Solar eclipses of 1986-1989
Each member 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.
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