Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971
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| Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Partial |
| Gamma | -1.2659 |
| Magnitude | 0.508 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 22:39:31 |
| References | |
| Saros | 154 (4 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9445 |
A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 20–21, 1971. 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. It was visible near sunrise on August 21st over parts of Australia.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 1968-1971
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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
| 119 |  March 28, 1968 Partial |
124 |  September 22, 1968 Total |
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| 129 |  March 18, 1969 Annular |
134 |  September 11, 1969 Annular |
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| 139 |  March 7, 1970 Total |
144 |  August 31, 1970 Annular |
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| 149 |  February 25, 1971 Partial |
154 | August 20, 1971 Partial |
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| A partial solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 occurs in the next lunar year set. | ||||||
References
External links
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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