| Solar eclipse of March 18, 1950 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.9988 |
| Magnitude | 0.962 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | - |
| Coordinates | 60.9S 40.9E |
| Max. width of band | - km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 15:32:01 |
| References | |
| Saros | 119 (62 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9398 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 18, 1950. 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 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 | ||||||
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 August 12, 1942 and August 11, 2018.
| August 10-12 | May 30 | March 18 | January 4-5 | October 23-24 |
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| 115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
August 12, 1942 |
May 30, 1946 |
March 18, 1950 |
January 5, 1954 |
October 23, 1957 |
| 125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
August 11, 1961 |
May 30, 1965 |
March 18, 1969 |
January 4, 1973 |
October 23, 1976 |
| 135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
August 10, 1980 |
May 30, 1984 |
March 18, 1988 |
January 4, 1992 |
October 24, 1995 |
| 145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
August 11, 1999 |
May 31, 2003 |
March 19, 2007 |
January 4, 2011 |
October 23, 2014 |
| 155 | ||||
August 11, 2018 |
