A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Wednesday, December 23 and Thursday, December 24, 1992, with a magnitude of 0.8422. 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.
A partial eclipse was visible for parts of East Asia, Northeast Asia, and Alaska.
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Eclipse timing Places experiencing partial eclipse Solar Eclipse of December 24, 1992(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Hong Kong 07:02:12 07:06:35 07:07:32 0:08 0.01% Shenzhen 07:00:42 (sunrise) 07:06:35 07:12:20 0:12 0.04% Taipei 06:36:03 (sunrise) 07:09:59 07:51:56 1:16 6.59% Suzhou 06:53:42 (sunrise) 07:14:38 08:10:37 1:17 17.00% Shanghai 06:50:01 (sunrise) 07:15:04 08:12:06 1:22 17.59% Seoul 07:44:33 (sunrise) 08:25:49 09:38:17 1:54 35.25% Pyongyang 07:53:39 (sunrise) 08:26:34 09:38:58 1:45 37.02% Hagåtña 08:49:56 09:30:45 10:15:00 1:25 3.61% Osaka 07:21:28 08:31:30 09:51:13 2:30 37.12% Kyoto 07:21:38 08:32:10 09:52:26 2:31 38.00% Saipan 08:43:35 09:33:10 10:27:44 1:44 6.66% Beijing 07:33:50 (sunrise) 07:37:09 08:25:17 0:51 26.57% Vladivostok 08:42:13 (sunrise) 09:37:24 10:58:04 2:16 49.92% Yokohama 07:23:13 08:37:46 10:02:32 2:39 41.94% Tokyo 07:23:23 08:38:12 10:03:13 2:40 42.49% Sapporo 07:29:50 08:48:57 10:17:16 2:47 56.66% Komsomolsk-on-Amur 08:51:48 (sunrise) 09:53:08 11:17:34 2:26 64.59% Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 09:35:14 10:55:43 12:24:18 2:49 63.17% Palikir 10:42:21 10:56:07 11:10:06 0:28 0.08% Choibalsan 09:10:35 (sunrise) 09:14:36 09:40:27 0:30 16.36% Magadan 09:59:41 11:20:28 12:44:40 2:49 76.57% Wake Island 11:04:10 12:23:20 13:44:02 2:40 18.45% Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 10:59:25 12:26:09 13:55:38 2:56 73.22% Anchorage 15:11:13 15:35:34 15:43:09 (sunset) 0:32 15.99% Chita 09:33:21 (sunrise) 09:37:55 09:47:10 0:14 4.00% Anadyr 11:32:18 12:52:30 14:02:46 (sunset) 2:30 73.93% Yakutsk 09:46:15 (sunrise) 09:54:32 10:20:50 0:35 19.33% Adak 13:38:06 15:05:21 16:27:40 2:50 61.89% Midway Atoll 12:44:27 14:07:11 15:23:07 2:39 23.92% Unalaska 14:55:20 16:17:04 17:33:05 2:38 56.14%References:
Eclipse details Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
+December 24, 1992 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1992 December 23 at 22:21:43.1 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1992 December 24 at 00:31:41.3 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1992 December 24 at 00:43:50.0 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1992 December 24 at 00:46:08.3 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1992 December 24 at 02:41:38.9 UTC
+December 24, 1992 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.84220 Eclipse Obscuration 0.77919 Gamma 1.07106 Sun Right Ascension 18h10m41.8s Sun Declination -23°25'00.8" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'15.6" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 18h10m11.4s Moon Declination -22°25'35.5" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'15.7" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°56'00.6" ΔT 59.1 s
Eclipse season
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
+ Eclipse season of December 1992 December 9Descending node (full moon) December 24Ascending node (new moon) Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 125 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 151
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1992 An annular solar eclipse on January 4. A partial lunar eclipse on June 15. A total solar eclipse on June 30. A total lunar eclipse on December 9. A partial solar eclipse on December 24.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 7, 1989 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 12, 1996
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 12, 1985 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 5, 2000
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of December 20, 1983 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of December 30, 2001
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 25, 1982 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003
Solar Saros 151 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 13, 1974 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 14, 1964 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 4, 2021
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 23, 1906 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 24, 2079
Solar eclipses of 1990–1992
Saros 151
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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