| Solar eclipse of April 8, 1959 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.4546 |
| Magnitude | 0.9401 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 7m 26s |
| Coordinates | 19.1S 137.6E |
| Max. width of band | 247 km |
| 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 partially 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, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
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This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 118 | April 30, 1957 Annular |
123 | October 23, 1957 Total |
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| 128 | April 19, 1958 Annular |
133 | October 12, 1958 Total |
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| 138 | April 8, 1959 Annular |
143 | October 2, 1959 Total |
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| 148 | March 27, 1960 Partial |
153 | September 20, 1960 Partial |
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