A partial solar eclipse occurred on Friday, October 21, 1949. 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 October 21, 1949 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | −1.027 |
Magnitude | 0.9638 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 61°30′S 107°30′E / 61.5°S 107.5°E |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 21:13:01 |
References | |
Saros | 152 (9 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9397 |
Related eclipses edit
Solar eclipses 1946–1949 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 1946 to 1949 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
117 | 1946 May 30 Partial |
-1.07105 | 122 | 1946 November 23 Partial |
1.10500 | |
127 | 1947 May 20 Total |
-0.35279 | 132 | 1947 November 12 Annular |
0.37431 | |
137 | 1948 May 9 Annular |
0.41332 | 142 | 1948 November 1 Total |
-0.35172 | |
147 | 1949 April 28 Partial |
1.20682 | 152 | 1949 October 21 Partial |
-1.02696 |
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
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC