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On March 9, 2016, a large area of the Pacific, covering Indonesia, Borneo, but also large parts of Southeast Asia and Australia, witnessed a partial solar eclipse.It was total in multiple islands of Indonesia, three atolls of the Federated States of Micronesia (Eauripik, Woleai and Ifalik) and the central Pacific, starting at sunrise over Sumatra and ending at sunset north of Hawaii.
English: Solar eclipse of March 9, total eclipse seen from Manggar Beach, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. Bahasa Indonesia: Gerhana matahari total pada 9 Maret 2016, dilihat dari Pantai Manggar, Kota Balikpapan, Kalimantan Timur.
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A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [1]
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Total 0.94536 125 Solar Dynamics Observatory: September 13, 2015 Partial −1.10039 130 Balikpapan, Indonesia: March 9, 2016 Total 0.26092 135 Annularity in L'Étang-Salé, Réunion: September 1, 2016 Annular −0.33301 140 Partial from Buenos Aires, Argentina: February 26, 2017 Annular −0.45780 145 Totality in Madras, OR, USA: August 21 ...
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Occultation of Uranus during the lunar eclipse on 8 November 2022. Occultation of a star by the Moon. The term occultation is most frequently used to describe lunar occultations, those relatively frequent occasions when the Moon passes in front of a star during the course of its orbital motion around the Earth.