| Solar eclipse of December 14, 1955 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.4266 |
| Magnitude | 0.9176 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 12m 9s |
| Coordinates | 2.1N 72.2E |
| Max. width of band | 346 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 7:02:25 |
| References | |
| Saros | 141 (20 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9411 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 14, 1955. 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.
Note: Partial solar eclipse of February 14, 1953 and August 9, 1953 belong to the last lunar year set.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 116 | July 11, 1953 Partial |
121 | January 5, 1954 Annular |
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| 126 | June 30, 1954 Total |
131 | December 25, 1954 Annular |
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| 136 | June 20, 1955 Total |
141 | December 14, 1955 Annular |
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| 146 | June 8, 1956 Total |
151 | December 2, 1956 Partial |
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Solar Saros 141 repeats every 18 years, 11 days and contains 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains annular eclipses from August 4, 1739 through October 14, 2460. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. [1]
Series members 17-28 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 17 | 18 | 19 |
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November 11, 1901 |
November 22, 1919 |
December 2, 1937 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 |
December 14, 1955 |
December 24, 1973 |
January 4, 1992 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 |
January 15, 2010 |
January 26, 2028 |
February 5, 2046 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 |
February 17, 2064 |
February 27, 2082 |
March 10, 2100 |
