Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, December 15, 1982,[1] with a magnitude of 0.735. 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.

This was the last of four partial solar eclipses in 1982, with the others occurring on January 25, June 21, and July 20.

A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Northeast Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[2]

December 15, 1982 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 1982 December 15 at 07:22:50.6 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 1982 December 15 at 09:11:50.4 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 1982 December 15 at 09:18:56.3 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 1982 December 15 at 09:32:08.9 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 1982 December 15 at 11:41:38.8 UTC
December 15, 1982 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.73506
Eclipse Obscuration 0.64327
Gamma 1.12928
Sun Right Ascension 17h29m51.3s
Sun Declination -23°15'36.8"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'15.0"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9"
Moon Right Ascension 17h30m31.0s
Moon Declination -22°15'08.5"
Moon Semi-Diameter 14'47.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'18.4"
ΔT 52.9 s

Eclipse season

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Eclipse season of December 1982
December 15
Descending node (new moon)
 December 30
Ascending node (full moon)
File:SE1982Dec15P.png File:Lunar eclipse chart close-1982Dec30.png
Partial solar eclipse
Solar Saros 122		 Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 134

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1982

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 122

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1982–1985

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[3]

The partial solar eclipses on January 25, 1982 and July 20, 1982 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1982 to 1985
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
117 June 21, 1982
File:SE1982Jun21P.png
Partial 		−1.2102 122 December 15, 1982
File:SE1982Dec15P.png
Partial 		1.1293
127 June 11, 1983
File:SE1983Jun11T.png
Total 		−0.4947 132 December 4, 1983
File:SE1983Dec04A.png
Annular 		0.4015
137 May 30, 1984
File:SE1984May30A.png
Annular 		0.2755 142
File:Solar eclipse of 22 November 1984.JPG
Partial in Gisborne,
New Zealand 		November 22, 1984
File:SE1984Nov22T.png
Total 		−0.3132
147 May 19, 1985
File:SE1985May19P.png
Partial 		1.072 152 November 12, 1985
File:SE1985Nov12T.png
Total 		−0.9795

Saros 122

Template:Solar Saros series 122

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 eclipse events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 22 May 9–11 February 26–27 December 14–15 October 2–3
116 118 120 122 124
File:SE1971Jul22P.png
July 22, 1971 		File:SE1975May11P.png
May 11, 1975 		File:SE1979Feb26T.png
February 26, 1979 		File:SE1982Dec15P.png
December 15, 1982 		File:SE1986Oct03H.png
October 3, 1986
126 128 130 132 134
File:SE1990Jul22T.png
July 22, 1990 		File:SE1994May10A.png
May 10, 1994 		File:SE1998Feb26T.png
February 26, 1998 		File:SE2001Dec14A.png
December 14, 2001 		File:SE2005Oct03A.png
October 3, 2005
136 138 140 142 144
File:SE2009Jul22T.png
July 22, 2009 		File:SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013 		File:SE2017Feb26A.png
February 26, 2017 		File:SE2020Dec14T.png
December 14, 2020 		File:SE2024Oct02A.png
October 2, 2024
146 148 150 152 154
File:SE2028Jul22T.png
July 22, 2028 		File:SE2032May09A.png
May 9, 2032 		File:SE2036Feb27P.png
February 27, 2036 		File:SE2039Dec15T.png
December 15, 2039 		File:SE2043Oct03A.png
October 3, 2043
156
File:SE2047Jul22P.png
July 22, 2047

Tritos series

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Inex series

Template:Solar Inex series 2011 November 25

References

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