| Solar eclipse of January 5, 1954 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.9296 |
| Magnitude | 0.972 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 1m 42s |
| Coordinates | 79.1S 120.8W |
| Max. width of band | 278 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 2:32:01 |
| References | |
| Saros | 121 (57 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9407 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 5, 1954. 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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The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days).
This series has 21 eclipse events between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029.
| July 10-11 | April 29-30 | February 15-16 | December 4 | September 21-23 |
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| 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
July 11, 1953 |
April 30, 1957 |
February 15, 1961 |
December 4, 1964 |
September 22, 1968 |
| 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
July 10, 1972 |
April 29, 1976 |
February 16, 1980 |
December 4, 1983 |
September 23, 1987 |
| 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
July 11, 1991 |
April 29, 1995 |
February 16, 1999 |
December 4, 2002 |
September 22, 2006 |
| 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
July 11, 2010 |
April 29, 2014 |
February 15, 2018 |
December 4, 2021 |
September 21, 2025 |
| 156 | ||||
July 11, 2029 |
