Solar eclipse of June 30, 1954

Solar eclipse of June 30, 1954
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.6135
Magnitude	1.0357
Maximum eclipse
Duration	155 sec (2 m 35 s)
Coordinates	60°30′N 4°12′E / 60.5°N 4.2°E
Max. width of band	153 km (95 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	12:32:38
References
Saros	126 (44 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9408

A total solar eclipse occurred on June 30, 1954. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality began at sunrise over the United States over Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and crossed into Canada, across southern Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands, then into Europe, across Norway, Sweden, and eastern Europe. It ended before sunset over Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and ending in northwestern India.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1953-1956

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.

Note: Partial solar eclipse of February 14, 1953 and August 9, 1953 belong to the last lunar year set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1953–1956
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
116	July 11, 1953 Partial		121	January 5, 1954 Annular
126	June 30, 1954 Total		131	December 25, 1954 Annular
136	June 20, 1955 Total		141	December 14, 1955 Annular
146	June 8, 1956 Total		151	December 2, 1956 Partial

Saros 126

It is a part of Saros cycle 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810 and hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864. It contains total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. The longest duration of central eclipse (annular or total) was 5 minutes, 46 seconds of annularity on November 22, 1593. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972.^[1]

Series members 39–49 occur between 1901 and 2100
39	40	41
June 8, 1918	June 19, 1936	June 30, 1954
42	43	44
July 10, 1972	July 22, 1990	August 1, 2008
45	46	47
August 12, 2026	August 23, 2044	September 3, 2062
48	49
September 13, 2080	September 25, 2098

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).

22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011.
September 11-12	June 30-July 1	April 18-19	February 4-5	November 22-23
114	116	118	120	122
September 12, 1931	June 30, 1935	April 19, 1939	February 4, 1943	November 23, 1946
124	126	128	130	132
September 12, 1950	June 30, 1954	April 19, 1958	February 5, 1962	November 23, 1965
134	136	138	140	142
September 11, 1969	June 30, 1973	April 18, 1977	February 4, 1981	November 22, 1984
144	146	148	150	152
September 11, 1988	June 30, 1992	April 17, 1996	February 5, 2000	November 23, 2003
154	156
September 11, 2007	July 1, 2011

See also

• List of solar eclipses visible from the United Kingdom 1000–2090 AD

Notes

1. Solar_Saros_series_126, accessed October 2010

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements
• Photo from Russia
• Solar eclipse of June 30, 1954 in Russia
• Photo of Solar eclipse
• BBC: 1954: Three continents see eclipse of sun (Article and video)