Solar eclipse of October 21, 1949

20th-century partial solar eclipse

61°30′S 107°30′E / 61.5°S 107.5°E / -61.5; 107.5Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse21:13:01ReferencesSaros152 (9 of 70)Catalog # (SE5000)9397

A partial solar eclipse occurred on Friday, October 21, 1949. 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 1946–1949

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 1946–1949
Ascending node		Descending node
117	1946 May 30 Partial	122	1946 November 23 Partial
127	1947 May 20 Total	132	1947 November 12 Annular
137	1948 May 9 Annular	142	1948 November 1 Total
147	1949 April 28 Partial	152	1949 October 21 Partial

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

Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Besselian elements

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