Solar eclipse of January 5, 1954
Solar eclipse of January 5, 1954 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.9296 |
Magnitude | 0.972 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 102 s (1 min 42 s) |
Coordinates | 79°06′S 120°48′W / 79.1°S 120.8°W |
Max. width of band | 278 km (173 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 2:32:01 |
References | |
Saros | 121 (57 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9407 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 5, 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. 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 1953–1956
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[1]
The partial solar eclipses on February 14, 1953 and August 9, 1953 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1953 to 1956 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
116 | July 11, 1953 Partial |
1.4388 | 121 | January 5, 1954 Annular |
−0.9296 | |
126 | June 30, 1954 Total |
0.6135 | 131 | December 25, 1954 Annular |
−0.2576 | |
136 | June 20, 1955 Total |
−0.1528 | 141 | December 14, 1955 Annular |
0.4266 | |
146 | June 8, 1956 Total |
−0.8934 | 151 | December 2, 1956 Partial |
1.0923 |
Saros 121
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 121, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on April 25, 944 AD. It contains total eclipses from July 10, 1070 through October 9, 1809; hybrid eclipses on October 20, 1827 and October 30, 1845; and annular eclipses from November 11, 1863 through February 28, 2044. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 7, 2206. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of totality was produced by member 39 at 6 minutes, 20 seconds on June 21, 1629, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 62 at 2 minutes, 27 seconds on February 28, 2044. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[2]
Series members 49–70 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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49 | 50 | 51 |
October 9, 1809 |
October 20, 1827 |
October 30, 1845 |
52 | 53 | 54 |
November 11, 1863 |
November 21, 1881 |
December 3, 1899 |
55 | 56 | 57 |
December 14, 1917 |
December 25, 1935 |
January 5, 1954 |
58 | 59 | 60 |
January 16, 1972 |
January 26, 1990 |
February 7, 2008 |
61 | 62 | 63 |
February 17, 2026 |
February 28, 2044 |
March 11, 2062 |
64 | 65 | 66 |
March 21, 2080 |
April 1, 2098 |
April 13, 2116 |
67 | 68 | 69 |
April 24, 2134 |
May 4, 2152 |
May 16, 2170 |
70 | ||
May 26, 2188 |
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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.
22 eclipse events between January 5, 1935 and August 11, 2018 | ||||
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January 4–5 | October 23–24 | August 10–12 | May 30–31 | March 18–19 |
111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
January 5, 1935 |
August 12, 1942 |
May 30, 1946 |
March 18, 1950 | |
121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
January 5, 1954 |
October 23, 1957 |
August 11, 1961 |
May 30, 1965 |
March 18, 1969 |
131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
January 4, 1973 |
October 23, 1976 |
August 10, 1980 |
May 30, 1984 |
March 18, 1988 |
141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
January 4, 1992 |
October 24, 1995 |
August 11, 1999 |
May 31, 2003 |
March 19, 2007 |
151 | 153 | 155 | ||
January 4, 2011 |
October 23, 2014 |
August 11, 2018 |
Notes
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 121". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC