Partial solar eclipse
Monday, October 2, 1978 at 06:27 AM UTC
Saros family
Eclipses ~18 years and 11 days apart — same orbital geometry, shifted ~120° west each cycle.
1 Saros later →
Partial solar eclipse
October 12, 1996
Loading map…
Peak (UTC)
Sunday, Oct 1
Type
Partial solar eclipse
Distance to shadow axis
7,410 km
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.