Partial solar eclipse
Saturday, October 12, 1996 at 02:02 PM UTC
Saros family
Eclipses ~18 years and 11 days apart — same orbital geometry, shifted ~120° west each cycle.
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Partial solar eclipse
October 1, 1978
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Partial solar eclipse
October 23, 2014
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Peak (UTC)
Saturday, Oct 12
Type
Partial solar eclipse
Distance to shadow axis
7,161 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.