Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951
An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1951 with a magnitude of 0.9896. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible from New Zealand on March 8th (Thursday), and northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and San Andrés Island in Colombia on March 7th (Wednesday).
Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | -0.242 |
Magnitude | 0.9896 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 59 sec (0 m 59 s) |
Coordinates | 17.7°S 123.5°W |
Max. width of band | 38 km (24 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 20:53:40 |
References | |
Saros | 129 (48 of 80) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9400 |
Related eclipses
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 1950–1953 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
119 | ![]() 1950 March 18 Annular (non-central) |
124 | ![]() 1950 September 12 Total | |||
129 | ![]() 1951 March 7 Annular |
134 | ![]() 1951 September 1 Annular | |||
139 | ![]() 1952 February 25 Total |
144 | ![]() 1952 August 20 Annular | |||
149 | ![]() 1953 February 14 Partial |
154 | ![]() 1953 August 9 Partial | |||
Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set |
Saros 129
It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses from March 29, 1987 through April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 . All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.[2]
Series members 46–56 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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46 | 47 | 48 |
![]() February 14, 1915 |
![]() February 24, 1933 |
![]() March 7, 1951 |
49 | 50 | 51 |
![]() March 18, 1969 |
![]() March 29, 1987 |
![]() April 8, 2005 |
52 | 53 | 54 |
![]() April 20, 2023 |
![]() April 30, 2041 |
![]() May 11, 2059 |
55 | 56 | |
![]() May 22, 2077 |
![]() June 2, 2095 |
Metonic series
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.
22 eclipse events between December 24, 1916 and July 31, 2000 | ||||
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December 24–25 | October 12–13 | July 31-Aug 1 | May 18–20 | March 7–8 |
91 | 93 | 95 | 97 | 99 |
December 23, 1878 | October 12, 1882 | July 31, 1886 | May 18, 1890 | March 7, 1894 |
101 | 103 | 105 | 107 | 109 |
December 23, 1897 | October 12, 1901 | August 1, 1905 | May 19, 1909 | March 8, 1913 |
111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
![]() December 24, 1916 |
October 12, 1920 | ![]() July 31, 1924 |
![]() May 19, 1928 |
![]() March 7, 1932 |
121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
![]() December 25, 1935 |
![]() October 12, 1939 |
![]() August 1, 1943 |
![]() May 20, 1947 |
![]() March 7, 1951 |
131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
![]() December 25, 1954 |
![]() October 12, 1958 |
![]() July 31, 1962 |
![]() May 20, 1966 |
![]() March 7, 1970 |
141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
![]() December 24, 1973 |
![]() October 12, 1977 |
![]() July 31, 1981 |
![]() May 19, 1985 |
![]() March 7, 1989 |
151 | 153 | 155 | 157 | 159 |
![]() December 24, 1992 |
![]() October 12, 1996 |
![]() July 31, 2000 |
May 19, 2004 | March 7, 2008 |
161 | 163 | 165 | 167 | 169 |
December 24, 2011 | October 13, 2015 | August 1, 2019 | May 19, 2023 | March 8, 2027 |
Notes
- 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.
- Espenak, F. "NASA Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 129". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC