Solar eclipse of September 2, 1997

Solar eclipse of September 2, 1997
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	−1.0352
Magnitude	0.8988
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	71.8°S 114.3°E / -71.8; 114.3
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	0:04:48
References
Saros	125 (53 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9502

A partial solar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, September 2, 1997. 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.

Images

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 1997

• A total solar eclipse on March 9.
• A partial lunar eclipse on March 24.
• A partial solar eclipse on September 2.
• A total lunar eclipse on September 16.

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1997 to 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 Guadeloupe	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.

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

External links

• NASA graphics

Photos:

• [1] APOD 9/3/1997, A Partial Eclipse in Southern Skies, partial eclipse from Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, South Australia