Solar eclipse of May 10, 1994


An annular solar eclipse occurred at the moon's descending node of the orbit on Tuesday, May 10, 1994. It was visible over a wide swath of North America, from Baja California across the Midwest of the United States up through Ontario and Nova Scotia in Canada. Occurring only 1.6 days after apogee, the moon's apparent diameter was smaller. This solar eclipse belonged to Saros series 128 because occurred at the Moon's descending node and 128 is an even number.

The Annular Eclipse of May 10, 1994

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. The eclipse is either total or annular. In a total eclipse, the moon's size from earth is large enough to block all of the disk of the sun.
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus, that is there is a ring of the sun around the dark moon. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
The path of annularity crossed four states of Mexico, the United States, the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Nova Scotia and the southeastern tip of Quebec, Azores Islands except Santa Maria Island, and part of Morocco including the capital city Rabat. Niagara Falls was also covered by the path of annularity.

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Related eclipses

Eclipses of 1994

Saros 128

Inex series

Metonic cycle