Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | -0.5364 |
Magnitude | 0.94 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 6m 47s |
Coordinates | 20.3S 164W |
Max. width of band | 258 km |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 21:55:30 |
References | |
Saros | 144 (14 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9443 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 31, 1970. 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 | |||
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. |