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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]
Saros cycle series 132 for solar eclipses occurs at the Moon's descending node, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 eclipses, 42 of which are umbral (33 annular, 2 hybrid, 7 total). The first eclipse in the series was on 13 August 1208 and the last eclipse will be on 25 September 2470.
English: Solar eclipse of March 9, 2016, partial eclipse seen from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, at 08:23, the peak partial eclipse observable from Singapore. Image is taken with a Nokia Lumia 1020 phone, under a simple filter consisting of tinted transparent file folder and tinted window.
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