A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Thursday, March 28 and Friday, March 29, 1968, with a magnitude of 0.899. 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 eastern Oceania and Antarctica.
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.
+March 28, 1968 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1968 March 28 at 20:44:13.8 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1968 March 28 at 21:53:55.7 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1968 March 28 at 22:48:36.8 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1968 March 28 at 23:00:30.4 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1968 March 29 at 01:17:17.4 UTC
+March 28, 1968 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.89902 Eclipse Obscuration 0.84205 Gamma −1.03704 Sun Right Ascension 00h30m35.2s Sun Declination +03°18'09.3" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'01.0" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 00h32m24.8s Moon Declination +02°28'24.8" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'57.5" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'53.9" ΔT 38.5 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 March–April 1968 March 28Ascending node (new moon) April 13Descending node (full moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 119 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 131
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1968 A partial solar eclipse on March 28. A total lunar eclipse on April 13. A total solar eclipse on September 22. A total lunar eclipse on October 6.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 10, 1964 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 1972
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 15, 1961 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 1975
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 24, 1959 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 4, 1977
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 30, 1957 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979
Solar Saros 119 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 18, 1950 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 9, 1986
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 19, 1939 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 9, 1997
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 27, 1881 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 27, 2055
Solar eclipses of 1968–1971
Saros 119
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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