Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971
Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.1188 |
Magnitude | 0.7872 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 61°24′N 33°30′W / 61.4°N 33.5°W |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 9:38:07 |
References | |
Saros | 149 (18 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9444 |
A partial solar eclipse occurred on February 25, 1971 with a magnitude of 0.7872. 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. In this partial solar eclipse, the moon covered 78.7% of the sun.
Related eclipses[]
Solar eclipses of 1968–1971[]
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 1968–1971 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
119 | ![]() 1968 March 28 Partial |
-1.03704 | 124 | ![]() 1968 September 22 Total |
0.94507 | |
129 | ![]() 1969 March 18 Annular |
-0.27037 | 134 | ![]() 1969 September 11 Annular |
0.22014 | |
139 | ![]() 1970 March 7 Total |
0.44728 | 144 | ![]() 1970 August 31 Annular |
-0.53640 | |
149 | ![]() 1971 February 25 Partial |
1.11876 | 154 | ![]() 1971 August 20 Partial |
-1.26591 | |
A partial solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 occurs in the next lunar year set. |
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 21, 1906 and July 20, 1982 | ||||
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July 20–21 | May 9 | February 24–25 | December 13–14 | October 1–2 |
105 | 107 | 109 | 111 | 113 |
![]() December 13, 1898 |
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115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
![]() July 21, 1906 |
![]() May 9, 1910 |
![]() February 25, 1914 |
![]() December 14, 1917 |
![]() October 1, 1921 |
125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
![]() July 20, 1925 |
![]() May 9, 1929 |
![]() February 24, 1933 |
![]() December 13, 1936 |
![]() October 1, 1940 |
135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
![]() July 20, 1944 |
![]() May 9, 1948 |
![]() February 25, 1952 |
![]() December 14, 1955 |
![]() October 2, 1959 |
145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
![]() July 20, 1963 |
![]() May 9, 1967 |
![]() February 25, 1971 |
![]() December 13, 1974 |
![]() October 2, 1978 |
155 | ||||
![]() July 20, 1982 |
References[]
- ^ 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
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