Solar eclipse of September 20, 1960

20th-century partial solar eclipse

72°06′N 74°06′W / 72.1°N 74.1°W / 72.1; -74.1Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse22:59:56ReferencesSaros153 (6 of 70)Catalog # (SE5000)9421

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, September 20, 1960, with a magnitude of 0.6139. 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. It began in northeast Russia near sunrise on September 21, and ended near sunset over North America on September 20, one day earlier because of the effects of the International Date Line.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1960

A total lunar eclipse on March 13, 1960.
A partial solar eclipse on March 27, 1960.
A total lunar eclipse on September 5, 1960.
A partial solar eclipse on September 20, 1960.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 2, 1956
Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1964

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 9, 1953
Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 2, 1967

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 15, 1951
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 25, 1969

Solar eclipses of 1957–1960

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
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

Saros 153

It is a part of Saros cycle 153, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on July 28, 1870. It contains annular eclipses from December 17, 2104 through May 26, 2970. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on August 22, 3114. The longest duration of annularity will be 7 minutes, 11 seconds on September 5, 2537.

Series members 3–19 occur between 1900 and 2200:
3	4	5
August 20, 1906	August 30, 1924	September 10, 1942
6	7	8
September 20, 1960	October 2, 1978	October 12, 1996
9	10	11
October 23, 2014	November 3, 2032	November 14, 2050
12	13	14
November 24, 2068	December 6, 2086	December 17, 2104
15	16	17
December 28, 2122	January 8, 2141	January 19, 2159
18	19
January 29, 2177	February 10, 2195

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.

Eclipse of the Sun of September 20, 1960—Sky and Telescope magazine, volume 20, page 129.

External links

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot1951/SE1960Sep20P.GIF
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEdata.php?Ecl=19600920

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