Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963
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| Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963 | |
|---|---|
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.4898 |
| Magnitude | 0.9951 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 0m 25s |
| Coordinates | 48.2S 15W |
| Max. width of band | 20 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 13:37:12 |
| References | |
| Saros | 140 (26 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9426 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 25, 1963. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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, 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 thousands of kilometres wide.
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Related eclipses [edit]
Solar eclipses of 1961-1964 [edit]
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 | |||||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
| 120 | February 15, 1961 Total |
125 | August 11, 1961 Annular |
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| 130 | February 5, 1962 Total |
135 | July 31, 1962 Annular |
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| 140 | January 25, 1963 Annular |
145 | July 20, 1963 Total |
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| 150 | January 14, 1964 Partial |
155 | July 9, 1964 Partial |
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| Partial solar eclipses of June 10, 1964 and December 4, 1964 belong in the next lunar year set. | ||||||
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References [edit]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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