Solar eclipse of April 8, 1959

Solar eclipse of April 8, 1959
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.4546
Magnitude 0.9401
Maximum eclipse
Duration 446 sec (7 m 26 s)
Coordinates 19°06′S 137°36′E / 19.1°S 137.6°E / -19.1; 137.6
Max. width of band 247 km (153 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 3:24:08
References
Saros 138 (28 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9418

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 1959. 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.

Solar eclipses of 1957-1960

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 1957–1960
Descending node   Ascending node
SarosMap SarosMap
118
April 30, 1957
Annular
123
October 23, 1957
Total
128
April 19, 1958
Annular
133
October 12, 1958
Total
138
April 8, 1959
Annular
143
October 2, 1959
Total
148
March 27, 1960
Partial
153
September 20, 1960
Partial

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