A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 9, 1953. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
| Solar eclipse of August 9, 1953 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Partial |
| Gamma | −1.344 |
| Magnitude | 0.3729 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Coordinates | 62°12′S 114°42′W / 62.2°S 114.7°W |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 15:55:03 |
| References | |
| Saros | 154 (3 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9405 |
Related eclipses edit
Solar eclipses of 1950–1953 edit
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]
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1950 to 1953 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 119 |  1950 March 18 Annular (non-central) |
-0.99880 | 124 |  1950 September 12 Total |
0.89030 | |
| 129 |  1951 March 7 Annular |
-0.24196 | 134 |  1951 September 1 Annular |
0.15570 | |
| 139 |  1952 February 25 Total |
0.46973 | 144 |  1952 August 20 Annular |
-0.61023 | |
| 149 |  1953 February 14 Partial |
1.13308 | 154 | 1953 August 9 Partial |
-1.34403 | |
| Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set. | ||||||
References edit
- ^ 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.
External links edit
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