Nature Partial Magnitude 0.4643 Saros 155 (4 of 71) Start date July 20, 1982 | Gamma 1.2886 Greatest eclipse 18:44:44 Catalog # (SE5000) 9469 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 20, 1982. 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 1979-1982
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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