Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971

Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971
Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.1188
Magnitude	0.7872
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	61°24′N 33°30′W / 61.4°N 33.5°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	9:38:07
References
Saros	149 (18 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9444

A partial solar eclipse occurred on February 25, 1971 with a magnitude of 0.7872. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. In this partial solar eclipse, the moon covered 78.7% of the sun.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1968–1971

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 eclipse on July 22, 1971 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1968 to 1971
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
119	March 28, 1968 Partial	−1.037	124	September 22, 1968 Total	0.9451
129	March 18, 1969 Annular	−0.2704	134	September 11, 1969 Annular	0.2201
139 Totality in Williamston, NC USA	March 7, 1970 Total	0.4473	144	August 31, 1970 Annular	−0.5364
149	February 25, 1971 Partial	1.1188	154	August 20, 1971 Partial	−1.2659

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 July 21, 1906 and July 20, 1982
July 20–21	May 9	February 24–25	December 13–14	October 1–2
105	107	109	111	113
			December 13, 1898
115	117	119	121	123
July 21, 1906	May 9, 1910	February 25, 1914	December 14, 1917	October 1, 1921
125	127	129	131	133
July 20, 1925	May 9, 1929	February 24, 1933	December 13, 1936	October 1, 1940
135	137	139	141	143
July 20, 1944	May 9, 1948	February 25, 1952	December 14, 1955	October 2, 1959
145	147	149	151	153
July 20, 1963	May 9, 1967	February 25, 1971	December 13, 1974	October 2, 1978
155
July 20, 1982