Solar eclipse of August 9, 1953

Solar eclipse of August 9, 1953
Solar eclipse of August 9, 1953
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	-1.344
Magnitude	0.3729
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	62°12′S 114°42′W / 62.2°S 114.7°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	15:55:03
References
Saros	154 (3 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9405

A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 9, 1953. 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 of 1950–1953[]

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 1950–1953
Ascending node		Descending node
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
119	1950 March 18 Annular (non-central)	124	1950 September 12 Total
129	1951 March 7 Annular	134	1951 September 1 Annular
139	1952 February 25 Total	144	1952 August 20 Annular
149	1953 February 14 Partial	154	1953 August 9 Partial
Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set