| Solar eclipse of May 20, 1966 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.3467 |
| Magnitude | 0.9991 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 0m 5s |
| Coordinates | 39.2N 26.4E |
| Max. width of band | 3 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 9:39:02 |
| References | |
| Saros | 137 (33 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9434 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 20, 1966. 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 | |
| 118 | May 11, 1975 Partial |
123 | November 3, 1975 Partial |
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| 128 | April 29, 1976 Annular |
133 | October 23, 1976 Total |
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| 138 | April 18, 1977 Annular |
143 | October 12, 1977 Total |
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| 148 | April 7, 1978 Partial |
153 | October 2, 1978 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 1, 2000 and July 1, 2076.
| July 31-Aug 1 | May 19-20 | March 7 | December 24-25 | October 12 |
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| 115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
July 31, 1924 |
May 19, 1928 |
March 7, 1932 |
December 25, 1935 |
October 12, 1939 |
| 125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
August 1, 1943 |
May 20, 1947 |
March 7, 1951 |
December 25, 1954 |
October 12, 1958 |
| 135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
July 31, 1962 |
May 20, 1966 |
March 7, 1970 |
December 24, 1973 |
October 12, 1977 |
| 145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
July 31, 1981 |
May 19, 1985 |
March 7, 1989 |
December 24, 1992 |
October 12, 1996 |
| 155 | ||||
July 31, 2000 |
