Solar eclipse of October 21, 1949

20th-century partial solar eclipse
61°30′S 107°30′E / 61.5°S 107.5°E / -61.5; 107.5Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse21:13:01ReferencesSaros152 (9 of 70)Catalog # (SE5000)9397

A partial solar eclipse occurred on Friday, October 21, 1949. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1946–1949

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1946 to 1949
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
117 1946 May 30

Partial		 -1.07105 122 1946 November 23

Partial		 1.10500
127 1947 May 20

Total		 -0.35279 132 1947 November 12

Annular		 0.37431
137 1948 May 9

Annular		 0.41332 142 1948 November 1

Total		 -0.35172
147 1949 April 28

Partial		 1.20682 152 1949 October 21

Partial		 -1.02696

References

  1. ^ 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.

External links

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


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