title: Solar eclipse of September 2, 1997
text: # Solar eclipse of September 2, 1997
  
  A partial solar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, September 2, 1997. 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.
  
  ## Related eclipses
  
  ### Eclipses of 1997
  
  * A total solar eclipse on March 9.
  * A partial lunar eclipse on March 24.
  * A partial solar eclipse on September 2.
  * A total lunar eclipse on September 16.
  
  ### Solar eclipses 1997–2000
  
  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.
  
  Solar eclipse series sets from 1997–2000 :
  
  | Ascending node | Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node | Descending node |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma |
  | 120 Chita, Russia | 1997 March 09 Total | 0.91830 | 125 | 1997 September 02 Partial (south) | -1.03521 |
  | 130 Total eclipse near Guadeloupe | 1998 February 26 Total | 0.23909 | 135 | 1998 August 22 Annular | -0.26441 |
  | 140 | 1999 February 16 Annular | -0.47260 | 145 Totality from France | 1999 August 11 Total | 0.50623 |
  | 150 | 2000 February 05 Partial (south) | -1.22325 | 155 | 2000 July 31 Partial (north) | 1.21664 |
  
  Partial solar eclipses on July 1, 2000 and December 25, 2000 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
  
  ### Metonic series
  
  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 ascending node.
  
  21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058 :
  
  | June 21 | April 8–9 | January 26 | November 13–14 | September 1–2 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 107 | 109 | 111 | 113 | 115 |
  | June 21, 1963 | April 9, 1967 | January 26, 1971 | November 14, 1974 | September 2, 1978 |
  | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
  | June 21, 1982 | April 9, 1986 | January 26, 1990 | November 13, 1993 | September 2, 1997 |
  | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
  | June 21, 2001 | April 8, 2005 | January 26, 2009 | November 13, 2012 | September 1, 2016 |
  | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
  | June 21, 2020 | April 8, 2024 | January 26, 2028 | November 14, 2031 | September 2, 2035 |
  | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
  | June 21, 2039 | April 9, 2043 | January 26, 2047 | November 14, 2050 | September 2, 2054 |
  | 157 |
  | June 21, 2058 |
  