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 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 Partial |
−1.2102 | 122 | December 15, 1982 Partial |
1.1293 | |
| 127 | June 11, 1983 Total |
−0.4947 | 132 | December 4, 1983 Annular |
0.4015 | |
| 137 | May 30, 1984 Annular |
0.2755 | 142 Partial in Gisborne, New Zealand |
November 22, 1984 Total |
−0.3132 | |
| 147 | May 19, 1985 Partial |
1.072 | 152 | November 12, 1985 Total |
−0.9795 | |
- ^ 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.