# Solar eclipse of October 24, 1995

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A total [solar eclipse](/source/Solar_eclipse) occurred at the Moon's [ascending node](/source/Lunar_node) of orbit on Tuesday, October 24, 1995,[1] with a [magnitude](/source/Magnitude_of_eclipse) of 1.0213. A [solar eclipse](/source/Solar_eclipse) occurs when the [Moon](/source/Moon) passes between [Earth](/source/Earth) and the [Sun](/source/Sun), thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's [apparent diameter](/source/Apparent_diameter) is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 2.7 days before [perigee](/source/Apsis) (on October 26, 1995, at 21:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[2]

The path of totality went through [Iran](/source/Iran), [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan), [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan), [India](/source/India), southwestern tip of [Bangladesh](/source/Bangladesh), [Burma](/source/Burma), [Thailand](/source/Thailand), [Cambodia](/source/Cambodia), [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam), [Spratly Islands](/source/Spratly_Islands), northeastern tip of [Sabah](/source/Sabah) of [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia), [Philippines](/source/Philippines) and [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia). A partial eclipse was visible for parts of [Northeast Africa](/source/Northeast_Africa), [Asia](/source/Asia), [Australia](/source/Australia), and northern [Oceania](/source/Oceania).

## Observation

### India

An aerial observation of this eclipse was done over India,[3] when a [MiG-25](/source/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25) reconnaissance aircraft of the [Indian Air Force](/source/Indian_Air_Force) was used to take images of this eclipse at an altitude of 25 km.[4]

The [Indian Institute of Astrophysics](/source/Indian_Institute_of_Astrophysics) established camps along the path of totality in [Rajasthan](/source/Rajasthan), [Uttar Pradesh](/source/Uttar_Pradesh), Iradatganj and [Diamond Harbour](/source/Diamond_Harbour) near [Kolkata](/source/Kolkata). Astronomers from other institutions and abroad from the [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia), [Brazil](/source/Brazil), [Russia](/source/Russia), [Japan](/source/Japan) and [Germany](/source/Germany) joined IIA at its camps. An IIA team also photographed the eclipse by chasing the Moon’s shadow in an [Indian Air Force](/source/Indian_Air_Force) plane [AN-32](/source/AN-32) from the crew escape hatch on the roof of the cockpit at an altitude of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above the sea level, which was the first time efforts made by the institute. [Doordarshan](/source/Doordarshan) and [All India Radio](/source/All_India_Radio) made live coverages of the eclipse. The eclipse happened to occur on the day of the [Diwali](/source/Diwali).[5]

### China

Within the Spratly Islands claimed by China, only [Cuarteron Reef](/source/Cuarteron_Reef) was controlled by China and lay in the path of totality. Instead of going to the faraway island, The Popular Science Committee of the Chinese Astronomical Society, Beijing Astronomical Society, [Beijing Planetarium](/source/Beijing_Planetarium) and [Beijing Astronomical Observatory](/source/Beijing_Astronomical_Observatory) (now incorporated into the [National Astronomical Observatories of China](/source/National_Astronomical_Observatories_of_China)) jointly organized observations abroad for the first time. A team of 4 was sent to [Sikhio district](/source/Sikhio_district), [Nakhon Ratchasima](/source/Nakhon_Ratchasima), Thailand by the Beijing Planetarium, and successfully photographed the whole process of the eclipse, the [corona](/source/Stellar_corona) at the greatest eclipse, and the [Baily's beads](/source/Baily's_beads) at the 2nd and 3rd contact.[6]

In addition, the [Chinese Academy of Sciences](/source/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences), Ministry of Electronics Industry, [China Earthquake Administration](/source/China_Earthquake_Administration), State Education Commission (now [Ministry of Education](/source/Ministry_of_Education_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China)) and departments in charge of water conservancy and meteorology conducted joint observations on changes of solar radiation, [ionosphere](/source/Ionosphere), [geomagnetic field](/source/Geomagnetic_field), radio and acoustic heavy waves, mainly in the [Paracel Islands](/source/Paracel_Islands), [Sanya](/source/Sanya), [Haikou](/source/Haikou) and [Zhengzhou](/source/Zhengzhou). From all these places, only a partial solar eclipse was visible instead of a total solar eclipse.[7]

## Eclipse timing

### Places experiencing total eclipse

Solar Eclipse of October 24, 1995 (Local Times) Country or territory City or place Start of partial eclipse Start of total eclipse Maximum eclipse End of total eclipse End of partial eclipse Duration of totality (min:s) Duration of eclipse (hr:min) Maximum magnitude Birjand 05:43:41 (sunrise) 06:23:23 06:23:27 06:23:32 07:30:24 0:09 1:47 1.0006 Lashkargah 06:22:36 07:24:53 07:25:09 07:25:24 08:35:00 0:31 2:13 1.0033 Bahawalpur 06:53:06 07:59:11 07:59:16 07:59:20 09:13:50 0:09 2:21 1.0005 Sikar 07:23:54 08:31:40 08:32:04 08:32:29 09:49:14 0:49 2:25 1.0055 Alwar 07:24:26 08:33:11 08:33:28 08:33:45 09:51:42 0:34 2:27 1.0018 Mathura 07:24:45 08:34:05 08:34:16 08:34:28 09:53:08 0:23 2:28 1.001 Bharatpur 07:24:47 08:34:03 08:34:22 08:34:40 09:53:18 0:37 2:29 1.002 Dholpur 07:24:54 08:34:38 08:34:47 08:34:58 09:54:09 0:20 1.0008 Auraiya 07:25:42 08:36:28 08:36:34 08:36:40 09:57:06 0:12 2:31 1.0005 Manjhanpur 07:26:42 08:38:23 08:38:52 08:39:22 10:01:01 0:59 2:34 1.0049 Prayagraj 07:26:59 08:39:07 08:39:27 08:39:48 10:01:58 0:41 2:35 1.002 Mirzapur 07:27:27 08:40:10 08:40:27 08:40:43 10:03:33 0:33 2:36 1.0013 Robertsganj 07:27:47 08:40:39 08:41:11 08:41:44 10:04:49 1:05 2:37 1.0068 Medininagar 07:28:31 08:42:24 08:42:41 08:42:58 10:07:16 0:34 2:39 1.0013 Purulia 07:30:23 08:45:50 08:46:18 08:46:45 10:12:49 0:55 2:42 1.003 Panskura 07:31:38 08:48:06 08:48:40 08:49:15 10:16:29 1:09 2:45 1.0047 Tamluk 07:31:50 08:48:28 08:49:03 08:49:37 10:17:03 1.0046 Batanagar 07:32:04 08:49:05 08:49:25 08:49:46 10:17:33 0:41 1.0015 Nakhon Sawan 09:19:28 10:47:04 10:47:58 10:48:52 12:26:03 1:48 3:07 1.0083 Nakhon Ratchasima 09:23:12 10:53:13 10:53:30 10:53:47 12:32:35 0:34 3:09 1.0007 Siem Reap 09:27:34 10:58:59 10:59:47 11:00:36 12:39:50 1:37 3:12 1.0047 Kratié 09:32:25 11:05:37 11:06:33 11:07:29 12:47:10 1:52 3:15 1.0066 Phan Thiết 09:38:11 11:13:24 11:14:17 11:15:11 12:55:13 1:47 3:17 1.0053 References: [1]

### Places experiencing partial eclipse

Solar Eclipse of October 24, 1995 (Local Times) Country or territory City or place Start of partial eclipse Maximum eclipse End of partial eclipse Duration of eclipse (hr:min) Maximum coverage Dubai 06:21:29 (sunrise) 06:50:17 07:53:27 1:32 67.51% Tehran 06:18:10 (sunrise) 06:23:05 07:26:09 1:08 97.01% Ashgabat 07:23:03 (sunrise) 07:55:44 09:01:08 1:38 82.90% Kuwait City 05:54:55 (sunrise) 05:57:27 06:50:51 0:56 72.37% Kabul 06:24:53 07:28:57 08:40:20 2:15 84.50% Islamabad 06:55:33 08:01:24 09:15:01 2:19 82.86% Lahore 06:54:48 08:01:50 09:17:09 2:22 89.02% Tashkent 07:01:31 08:02:37 09:09:36 2:08 60.87% Baku 07:00:29 (sunrise) 07:03:24 07:57:19 0:57 75.08% New Delhi 07:24:56 08:34:06 09:52:22 2:27 95.91% Kathmandu 07:44:53 08:58:42 10:22:12 2:37 87.08% Thimphu 08:03:52 09:20:03 10:45:54 2:42 80.95% Dhaka 08:04:05 09:22:31 10:51:25 2:47 92.62% Yangon 08:43:03 10:07:59 11:43:35 3:01 97.42% Bangkok 09:21:36 10:50:56 12:29:41 3:08 95.58% Vientiane 09:22:21 10:51:37 12:29:24 3:07 89.55% Hanoi 09:27:52 10:56:40 12:32:13 3:04 73.36% Phnom Penh 09:31:14 11:04:47 12:45:22 3:14 97.14% Ho Chi Minh City 09:35:30 11:10:37 12:51:31 3:16 97.94% Singapore 10:46:00 12:16:07 13:51:32 3:06 59.64% Bandar Seri Begawan 11:01:46 12:42:29 14:20:56 3:19 92.65% Kota Kinabalu 11:03:05 12:44:18 14:22:30 98.21% Manila 11:09:21 12:47:07 14:19:52 3:11 69.29% General Santos 11:29:12 13:10:23 14:41:24 3:12 93.45% Ngerulmud 12:57:43 14:32:30 15:53:59 2:56 81.79% Manokwari 13:04:49 14:39:03 15:59:56 2:55 90.03% Palikir 15:53:10 17:06:24 18:09:20 (sunset) 2:16 86.85% Majuro 17:07:20 18:11:34 18:16:20 (sunset) 1:09 94.80% Tarawa 17:12:00 18:12:19 18:14:31 (sunset) 1:03 82.75% Yaren 17:08:33 18:14:03 18:40:26 (sunset) 1:32 80.43% References: [1]

## In popular culture

[Phil Whitaker](/source/Phil_Whitaker)'s prize-winning debut novel *[Eclipse of the Sun](/source/Eclipse_of_the_Sun_(novel))* published in 1997 and set in India has at its centre a dramatic attempt to organize a public viewing of the eclipse.

*Meet Me at the Eclipse* (Vietnamese: *[Hẹn em ngày nhật thực](https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%B9n_em_ng%C3%A0y_nh%E1%BA%ADt_th%E1%BB%B1c)*) is a 2026 high-grossing [Vietnamese](/source/Vietnam) film unfolding around the eclipse.[8][9]

## Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[10]

October 24, 1995 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1995 October 24 at 01:52:54.3 UTC First Umbral External Contact 1995 October 24 at 02:53:31.6 UTC First Central Line 1995 October 24 at 02:53:39.8 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 1995 October 24 at 02:53:47.9 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 1995 October 24 at 04:03:07.3 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1995 October 24 at 04:23:32.2 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1995 October 24 at 04:33:30.5 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1995 October 24 at 04:37:13.7 UTC Greatest Duration 1995 October 24 at 04:37:39.5 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 1995 October 24 at 05:04:10.7 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 1995 October 24 at 06:13:17.4 UTC Last Central Line 1995 October 24 at 06:13:27.9 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 1995 October 24 at 06:13:38.5 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1995 October 24 at 07:14:06.3 UTC

October 24, 1995 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 1.02135 Eclipse Obscuration 1.04315 Gamma 0.35176 Sun Right Ascension 13h52m45.4s Sun Declination -11°34'24.4" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'04.7" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 13h53m07.2s Moon Declination -11°14'17.0" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'10.1" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°59'20.4" ΔT 61.4 s

## Eclipse season

See also: [Eclipse cycle](/source/Eclipse_cycle)

This eclipse is part of an [eclipse season](/source/Eclipse_season), a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a [fortnight](/source/Fortnight).

Eclipse season of October 1995 October 8 Descending node (full moon) October 24 Ascending node (new moon) Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 117 Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 143

## Related eclipses

### Eclipses in 1995

- [A partial lunar eclipse on April 15](/source/April_1995_lunar_eclipse).
- [An annular solar eclipse on April 29](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_April_29,_1995).
- [A penumbral lunar eclipse on October 8](/source/October_1995_lunar_eclipse).
- **A total solar eclipse on October 24.**

### Metonic

- Preceded by: [Solar eclipse of January 4, 1992](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_January_4,_1992)
- Followed by: [Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_August_11,_1999)

### Tzolkinex

- Preceded by: [Solar eclipse of September 11, 1988](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_September_11,_1988)
- Followed by: [Solar eclipse of December 4, 2002](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_December_4,_2002)

### Half-Saros

- Preceded by: [Lunar eclipse of October 17, 1986](/source/October_1986_lunar_eclipse)
- Followed by: [Lunar eclipse of October 28, 2004](/source/October_2004_lunar_eclipse)

### Tritos

- Preceded by: [Solar eclipse of November 22, 1984](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_November_22,_1984)
- Followed by: [Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_September_22,_2006)

### Solar Saros 143

- Preceded by: [Solar eclipse of October 12, 1977](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_October_12,_1977)
- Followed by: [Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_November_3,_2013)

### Inex

- Preceded by: [Solar eclipse of November 12, 1966](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_November_12,_1966)
- Followed by: [Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_October_2,_2024)

### Triad

- Preceded by: [Solar eclipse of December 23, 1908](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_December_23,_1908)
- Followed by: [Solar eclipse of August 24, 2082](/source/Solar_eclipse_of_August_24,_2082)

## Notes

1. ["October 24, 1995 Total Solar Eclipse"](https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/1995-october-24). timeanddate. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

1. ["Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England"](https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/distance.html?year=1995&n=136). timeanddate. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

1. [The MIGnificient Flying Machines - MiG-25R](http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/aircraft/past/963-mig25.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190505181615/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/aircraft/past/963-mig25.html) 2019-05-05 at the Wayback Machine Bharat Rakshak.com 22 August 2017

1. Bhatnagar, A & Livingston, William Charles (2005). [*Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy*](https://books.google.com/books?id=fe7XDuxCYjcC&q=mig-25+eclipse&pg=PA157). World Scientific. p. 157. ISBN 9812382445.

1. R. C. Kapoor. ["SOME TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES OBSERVED FROM INDIA"](http://www.iiap.res.in/solareclipse). Indian Institute of Astrophysics. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20121128034332/http://www.iiap.res.in/solareclipse) 28 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["1995年10月24日泰国日全食"](http://news.163.com/08/0721/16/4HD0BMPU000125LI.html). 21 July 2008. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200519142333/http://news.163.com/08/0721/16/4HD0BMPU000125LI.html) 19 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine.

1. *1995年10月24日日全食观测*. 河南省郑州集邮公司.

1. Cecil (March 20, 2026). ["Vẻ đẹp hoài niệm của thập niên 90 trong Hẹn Em Ngày Nhật Thực"](https://bazaarvietnam.vn/ve-dep-hoai-niem-va-trong-treo-cua-hen-em-ngay-nhat-thuc/) [The nostalgic beauty of the 1990s in *Meet Me at the Eclipse*]. *[Harper's Bazaar](/source/Harper's_Bazaar) Vietnam*

1. Naman Ramachandran (April 14, 2026). ["Vietnamese Romance ‘Meet Me at the Eclipse’ Sets North American Theatrical Release After Record Home Box Office"](https://variety.com/2026/film/news/meet-me-at-the-eclipse-north-america-release-mockingbird-pictures-1236722149/). *[Variety](/source/Variety_(magazine))*

1. ["Total Solar Eclipse of 1995 Oct 24"](https://eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/1901-2000/SE1995Oct24Tprime.html). EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

## References

**Photos:**

- [Prof. Druckmüller's eclipse photography site](http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Eclipse/Ecl1995i/0-info.htm)
- [Rušin from Nim Ka Thana, India](http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/Solar_Corona_Shape_pg03.html)
- [Russian scientist had no successful observation of the eclipse](http://www.izmiran.ru/info/personalia/molodensky/Eclips95_r.html)
- [Russian scientist had no successful observation of the eclipse (2)](http://www.eclipse-2008.ru/eclipse/1995.php) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20091210074313/http://www.eclipse-2008.ru/eclipse/1995.php) 2009-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- [The 1995 Eclipse in India](http://www.krysstal.com/ec1995.html)

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