Solar eclipse of September 1, 1951
| Solar eclipse of September 1, 1951 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.1557 |
| Magnitude | 0.9747 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 156 sec (2 m 36 s) |
| Coordinates | 16°30′N 8°30′W / 16.5°N 8.5°W |
| Max. width of band | 91 km (57 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 12:51:51 |
| References | |
| Saros | 134 (40 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9401 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 1, 1951. 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.
| 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 | ||||||
Saros 134
It is a part of Saros cycle 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554 and hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843, and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428.[1]
| Series members 38-48 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 39 | 40 |
 August 10, 1915 |
 August 21, 1933 |
September 1, 1951 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 |
 September 11, 1969 |
 September 23, 1987 |
 October 3, 2005 |
| 44 | 45 | 46 |
 October 14, 2023 |
 October 25, 2041 |
 November 5, 2059 |
| 47 | 48 | |
 November 15, 2077 |
 November 27, 2095 | |
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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