Solar eclipse of March 18, 1950

Solar eclipse of March 18, 1950
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.9988
Magnitude	0.962
Maximum eclipse
Duration	-
Coordinates	60°54′S 40°54′E / 60.9°S 40.9°E
Max. width of band	- km
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	15:32:01
References
Saros	119 (62 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9398

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 18, 1950. 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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1950–1953

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

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).

21 eclipse events between August 12, 1942 and August 11, 2018 

August 10-12	May 30	March 18	January 4-5	October 23-24
115	117	119	121	123
August 12, 1942	May 30, 1946	March 18, 1950	January 5, 1954	October 23, 1957
125	127	129	131	133
August 11, 1961	May 30, 1965	March 18, 1969	January 4, 1973	October 23, 1976
135	137	139	141	143
August 10, 1980	May 30, 1984	March 18, 1988	January 4, 1992	October 24, 1995
145	147	149	151	153
August 11, 1999	May 31, 2003	March 19, 2007	January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014
155
August 11, 2018

Notes

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements