Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963

Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.4898
Magnitude	0.9951
Maximum eclipse
Duration	25 sec (0 m 25 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	20 km (12 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:37:12
References
Saros	140 (26 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9426

An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 25, 1963. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1961-1964

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 1961-1964

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
120	February 15, 1961 Total		125	August 11, 1961 Annular
130	February 5, 1962 Total		135	July 31, 1962 Annular
140	January 25, 1963 Annular		145	July 20, 1963 Total
150	January 14, 1964 Partial		155	July 9, 1964 Partial
Partial solar eclipses of June 10, 1964 and December 4, 1964 belong in the next lunar year set.

References

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