A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, April 9, 1986, with a magnitude of 0.8236. 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 Antarctica, Australia, Indonesia, and New Zealand.
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.
+April 9, 1986 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1986 April 09 at 04:10:36.4 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1986 April 09 at 05:14:50.1 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1986 April 09 at 06:09:02.6 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1986 April 09 at 06:21:22.4 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1986 April 09 at 08:32:39.0 UTC
+April 9, 1986 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.82362 Eclipse Obscuration 0.75723 Gamma −1.08215 Sun Right Ascension 01h10m32.0s Sun Declination +07°29'00.7" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'58.1" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 01h12m23.9s Moon Declination +06°36'30.3" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'59.5" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°55'01.4" ΔT 55.0 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 April 1986 April 9Ascending node (new moon) April 24Descending node (full moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 119 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 131
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1986 A partial solar eclipse on April 9. A total lunar eclipse on April 24. A hybrid solar eclipse on October 3. A total lunar eclipse on October 17.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 21, 1982 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 21, 1993
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 4, 1977 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 15, 1995
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 1975 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 9, 1997
Solar Saros 119 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 28, 1968 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 19, 2004
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 30, 1957 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 8, 1899 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 7, 2073
Solar eclipses of 1986–1989
Saros 119
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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