Solar eclipse of February 14, 1953

20th-century partial solar eclipse

61°54′N 104°54′E / 61.9°N 104.9°E / 61.9; 104.9Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse0:59:30ReferencesSaros149 (17 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9404

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Saturday, February 14, 1953, with a magnitude of 0.7596. 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.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1953

A total lunar eclipse on January 29, 1953.
A partial solar eclipse on February 14, 1953.
A partial solar eclipse on July 11, 1953.
A total lunar eclipse on July 26, 1953.
A partial solar eclipse on August 9, 1953.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 28, 1949
Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 2, 1956

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 3, 1946
Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 27, 1960

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of February 9, 1944
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of February 19, 1962

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 15, 1866
Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 15, 2039

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]

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.

Saros 149

Solar saros 149, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 21, 1664. It has total eclipses from April 9, 2043, to October 2, 2331. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 28, 2926. The longest total eclipse will be on July 17, 2205, at 4 minutes and 10 seconds.^[2]

Series members 15–25 occur between 1901 and 2100:
15	16	17
January 23, 1917	February 3, 1935	February 14, 1953
18	19	20
February 25, 1971	March 7, 1989	March 19, 2007
21	22	23
March 29, 2025	April 9, 2043	April 20, 2061
24	25
May 1, 2079	May 11, 2097

References

^ 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.
^ Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.

External links

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot1951/SE1953Feb14P.GIF

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