Solar eclipse of August 20, 1952
| Solar eclipse of August 20, 1952 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.6102 |
| Magnitude | 0.942 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 400 sec (6 m 40 s) |
| Coordinates | 21°42′S 64°06′W / 21.7°S 64.1°W |
| Max. width of band | 264 km (164 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 15:13:35 |
| References | |
| Saros | 144 (13 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9403 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1952. 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.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 1950-1953
Each member 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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
| 119 |  March 18, 1950 Annular |
124 |  September 12, 1950 Total | |||
| 129 |  March 7, 1951 Annular |
134 |  September 1, 1951 Annular | |||
| 139 |  February 25, 1952 Total |
144 | August 20, 1952 Annular | |||
| 149 |  February 14, 1953 Partial |
154 |  August 9, 1953 Partial | |||
| Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set | ||||||
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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