Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951

Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.242
Magnitude	0.9896
Maximum eclipse
Duration	59 sec (0 m 59 s)
Coordinates	17°42′S 123°30′W / 17.7°S 123.5°W
Max. width of band	38 km (24 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:53:40
References
Saros	129 (48 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9400

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 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.

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

Saros 129

It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses on April 8, 2005 and April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 .^[1]

Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:
46	47	48
February 14, 1915	February 24, 1933	March 7, 1951
49	50	51
March 18, 1969	March 29, 1987	April 8, 2005
52	53	54
April 20, 2023	April 30, 2041	May 11, 2059
55	56
May 22, 2077	June 2, 2095

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 31, 1924 and July 31, 2000
July 31-Aug 1	May 19-20	March 7	December 24-25	October 12
115	117	119	121	123
July 31, 1924	May 19, 1928	March 7, 1932	December 25, 1935	October 12, 1939
125	127	129	131	133
August 1, 1943	May 20, 1947	March 7, 1951	December 25, 1954	October 12, 1958
135	137	139	141	143
July 31, 1962	May 20, 1966	March 7, 1970	December 24, 1973	October 12, 1977
145	147	149	151	153
July 31, 1981	May 19, 1985	March 7, 1989	December 24, 1992	October 12, 1996
155
July 31, 2000

Notes

1. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros129.html

References

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