Solar eclipse of October 3, 1986


A hybrid solar eclipse occurred on October 3, 1986. A hybrid eclipse starts and ends as an annular, but is total in the middle around the point of greatest eclipse. Totality occurred for a very short time in an area in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of the southern tip of Greenland. The path, on the surface of the Earth, was a narrow, tapered, horse-shoe, and visible only from a thin strip between Iceland and Greenland. At maximum eclipse the solar elevation was about 6°. The path width was just about 800 meters wide.
This eclipse was the last central eclipse of saros 124 and the only hybrid eclipse of that saros.

Solar Saros 124

This is the eclipse number 53 of Solar Saros 124.
Saros cycle 124, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 6, 1049. It contains total eclipses from June 12, 1211 through September 22, 1968 with one hybrid solar eclipse on October 3, 1986. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on May 11, 2347. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 46 seconds on May 3, 1734.
Eclipse date: 03/10/1986
Saros length: 1298 years
Saros duration past: 937 years

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 1986

Saros 124

Metonic cycle