This was an eclipse with very long totality (maximum possible is about 7 minutes 20 seconds). The eclipse was viewed from a ship off the coast of Mauritania in Africa. Solar eclipses closely repeat circumstances in a cycle of 18 years 10 and 1/3 days (or 11 or 12 days, depending on the number of leap years involved, actually 223 lunations or 6585.3 days). This cycle is called the Saros and if you add this time to the above eclipse you will see the next similar eclipse was 11 Jul 1991. We were at that eclipse in Baja, which was also very long. The 1/3 day mentioned above means that the eclipses in the cycle move 120 degrees further around the Earth each time. After 3 eclipses in a Saros cycle the eclipses are back where they started (but a little north or south of where they were previously). Totality: About 6 minutes, 55 seconds. Film: Kodachrome 64. Lens: 500mm f/8. Image scanned from slide.