Annular solar eclipse
Saturday, August 22, 1998 at 02:06 AM UTC
Saros family
Eclipses ~18 years and 11 days apart — same orbital geometry, shifted ~120° west each cycle.
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Annular solar eclipse
August 10, 1980
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September 1, 2016
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Peak (UTC)
Friday, Aug 21
Type
Annular solar eclipse
Obscuration
95%
Distance to shadow axis
1,685 km
Greatest-eclipse point
3.0° S, 145.4° E
More eclipses to explore
Browse the catalog by date — the next and previous eclipses by peak time, regardless of type. For closely related events of the same type spaced ~18 years apart, see the Saros family panel on the left.