Solar eclipse of April 9, 1986

Solar eclipse of April 9, 1986
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	-1.0822
Magnitude	0.8236
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	6:21:22
References
Saros	119 (64 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9478

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A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 9, 1986. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1986-1989

Each member 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 1986-1989
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Ascending node		Descending node
119	April 9, 1986 Partial	124	October 3, 1986 Hybrid
129	March 29, 1987 Hybrid	134	September 23, 1987 Annular
139	March 18, 1988 Total	144	September 11, 1988 Annular
149	March 7, 1989 Partial	154	August 31, 1989 Partial

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).

This series has 21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058.

June 21	April 8-9	January 26	November 13-14	September 1-2
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	150px 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	150px January 26, 2047	November 14, 2050	September 2, 2054
157
June 21, 2058