Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970
| Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.5364 |
| Magnitude | 0.94 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 407 sec (6 m 47 s) |
| Coordinates | 20°18′S 164°00′W / 20.3°S 164°W |
| Max. width of band | 258 km (160 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 21:55:30 |
| References | |
| Saros | 144 (14 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9443 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 31, 1970. 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 1968-1971
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 28, 1968 Partial |
124 |  September 22, 1968 Total | |||
| 129 |  March 18, 1969 Annular |
134 |  September 11, 1969 Annular | |||
| 139 |  March 7, 1970 Total |
144 | August 31, 1970 Annular | |||
| 149 |  February 25, 1971 Partial |
154 |  August 20, 1971 Partial | |||
| A partial solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 occurs in the next lunar year set. | ||||||
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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