Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006
21st-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of the orbit on September 22, 2006.[1][2] 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The path of annularity of this eclipse passed through Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, the northern tip of Roraima and Amapá of Brazil, and the southern Atlantic.
Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.4062 |
Magnitude | 0.9352 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 429 s (7 min 9 s) |
Coordinates | 20.6°S 9.1°W / -20.6; -9.1 |
Max. width of band | 261 km (162 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 11:41:16 |
References | |
Saros | 144 (16 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9522 |