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.[1]
The partial solar eclipses on June 21, 1982 and December 15, 1982 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1979 to 1982 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
120.jpg) Totality in Brandon, MB, Canada |
February 26, 1979 Total |
0.8981 | 125 | August 22, 1979 Annular |
−0.9632 | |
| 130 | February 16, 1980 Total |
0.2224 | 135 | August 10, 1980 Annular |
−0.1915 | |
| 140 | February 4, 1981 Annular |
−0.4838 | 145 | July 31, 1981 Total |
0.5792 | |
| 150 | January 25, 1982 Partial |
−1.2311 | 155 | July 20, 1982 Partial |
1.2886 | |
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.