Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1951 with a magnitude of 0.9896. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible from New Zealand on March 8th (Thursday), and northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and San Andrés Island in Colombia on March 7th (Wednesday).

Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma-0.242
Magnitude0.9896
Maximum eclipse
Duration59 sec (0 m 59 s)
Coordinates17.7°S 123.5°W / -17.7; -123.5
Max. width of band38 km (24 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:53:40
References
Saros129 (48 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)9400

Solar eclipses of 1950–1953

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.[1]

Saros 129

It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses from March 29, 1987 through April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 . All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.[2]

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.

Notes
  1. van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  2. Espenak, F. "NASA Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 129". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
gollark: My main nation has great civil rights and political freedom but also somehow 90% taxes.
gollark: It also has politicky stuff because of the WA and region system.
gollark: It's an online game where you control a simulated (ish) nation by answering issues.
gollark: Great!
gollark: That's probably most insects, so let's just round it up to all of them for convenience.

References
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.