Solar eclipse of August 9, 1953

20th-century partial solar eclipse

62°12′S 114°42′W / 62.2°S 114.7°W / -62.2; -114.7Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse15:55:03ReferencesSaros154 (3 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9405

A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 9, 1953. 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

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	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

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.

External links

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot1951/SE1953Aug09P.GIF

Solar eclipses

Lists of eclipses

By era	Antiquity Middle Ages Modern era 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd Future
Saros series (list)	110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162
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Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)