| Solar eclipse of February 14, 1953 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Partial |
| Gamma | 1.1331 |
| Magnitude | 0.7596 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Coordinates | 61.9N 104.9E |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 0:59:30 |
| References | |
| Saros | 149 (17 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9404 |
A partial solar eclipse occurred on February 14, 1953. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
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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 18, 1950 Annular |
124 | September 12, 1950 Total |
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| 129 | March 7, 1951 Annular |
134 | September 1, 1951 Annular |
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| 139 | February 25, 1952 Total |
144 | August 20, 1952 Annular |
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| 149 | February 14, 1953 Partial |
154 | August 9, 1953 Partial |
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| Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set | ||||||
