| Solar eclipse of November 12, 1947 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.3743 |
| Magnitude | 0.965 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 3m 59s |
| Coordinates | 3N 117.4W |
| Max. width of band | 135 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 20:05:37 |
| References | |
| Saros | 132 (42 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9393 |
An annual solar eclipse occurred on November 12, 1947. 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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| 117 | May 30, 1946 Partial |
122 | November 23, 1946 Partial |
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| 127 | May 20, 1947 Total |
132 | November 12, 1947 Annular |
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| 137 | May 9, 1948 Annular |
142 | November 1, 1948 Total |
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| 147 | April 28, 1949 Partial |
152 | October 21, 1949 Partial |
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It is a part of Saros cycle 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146, hybrid on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2183 and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. The longest duration of annular was 4 minutes, 2 seconds on 1965 Nov 23, and totality will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds on May 27, 2272.[1]
Series members 40-50 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 40 | 41 | 42 |
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October 22, 1911 |
November 1, 1929 |
November 12, 1947 |
| 43 | 44 | 45 |
November 23, 1965 |
December 4, 1983 |
December 14, 2001 |
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
December 26, 2019 |
January 5, 2038 |
January 16, 2056 |
| 49 | 50 | |
January 27, 2074 |
February 7, 2092 |
