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 1957 to 1960 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
118 | 1957 April 30 Annular (non-central) |
0.99918 | 123 | 1957 October 23 Total (non-central) |
-1.00218 | |
128 | 1958 April 19 Annular |
0.27499 | 133 | 1958 October 12 Total |
-0.29506 | |
138 | 1959 April 08 Annular |
-0.45463 | 143 | 1959 October 02 Total |
0.42075 | |
148 | 1960 March 27 Partial |
-1.15375 | 153 | 1960 September 20 Partial |
1.20565 |
- ^ 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.