Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982

Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982
Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.1293
Magnitude	0.735
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	65°18′N 56°54′E / 65.3°N 56.9°E
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	9:32:09
References
Saros	122 (56 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9471

A partial solar eclipse occurred on December 15, 1982. 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. Occurring only 2.7 days before apogee (Apogee on December 18, 1982), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.

Related eclipses[edit]

Eclipses in 1982[edit]

Solar eclipses of 1982–1985[edit]

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]

Note: 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	1982 June 21 Partial	−1.21017	122	1982 December 15 Partial	1.12928
127	1983 June 11 Total	−0.49475	132	1983 December 4 Annular	0.40150
137	1984 May 30 Annular	0.27552	142 Partial from Gisborne, NZ	1984 November 22 Total	−0.31318
147	1985 May 19 Partial	1.07197	152	1985 November 12 Total	−0.97948

Metonic cycle[edit]

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 events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 21–22	May 9–11	February 26–27	December 14–15	October 2–3
116	118	120	122	124
July 22, 1971	May 11, 1975	February 26, 1979	December 15, 1982	October 3, 1986
126	128	130	132	134
July 22, 1990	May 10, 1994	February 26, 1998	December 14, 2001	October 3, 2005
136	138	140	142	144
July 22, 2009	May 10, 2013	February 26, 2017	December 14, 2020	October 2, 2024
146	148	150	152	154
July 22, 2028	May 9, 2032	February 27, 2036	December 15, 2039	October 3, 2043
156
July 22, 2047