Total solar eclipse
Friday, October 3, 1986 at 07:05 PM 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 13, 2004
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Peak (UTC)
Friday, Oct 3
Type
Total solar eclipse
Obscuration
100%
Distance to shadow axis
6,334 km
Greatest-eclipse point
59.9° N, 37.1° W
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.