| Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Total |
| Gamma | 0.6872 |
| Magnitude | 1.0379 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 2m 36s |
| Coordinates | 63.5N 94.2W |
| Max. width of band | 175 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 19:46:38 |
| References | |
| Saros | 126 (45 of 72) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9448 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on July 10, 1972. It was visible as a total eclipse across northeastern Asia and northern Canada, and as a partial eclipse across the United States.
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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 eclipses on February 25, 1971 and August 20, 1971 occur in the next lunar year set.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 116 | July 22, 1971 Partial |
121 | January 16, 1972 Annular |
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| 126 | July 10, 1972 Total |
131 | January 4, 1973 Annular |
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| 136 | June 30, 1973 Total |
141 | December 24, 1973 Annular |
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| 146 | June 20, 1974 Total |
151 | December 13, 1974 Partial |
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It is a part of Saros cycle 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810 and hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864. It contains total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. The longest duration of central eclipse (annular or total) was 5 minutes, 46 seconds of annularity on November 22, 1593. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972.[1]
Series members 39-49 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 39 | 40 | 41 |
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June 8, 1918 |
June 19, 1936 |
June 30, 1954 |
| 42 | 43 | 44 |
July 10, 1972 |
July 22, 1990 |
August 1, 2008 |
| 45 | 46 | 47 |
August 12, 2026 |
August 23, 2044 |
September 3, 2062 |
| 48 | 49 | |
September 13, 2080 |
September 25, 2098 |
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 |
Carly Simon's December 1972 pop hit "You're So Vain" contains the lyric "Then you flew your Lear down to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun," presumably a reference to this eclipse.
