| Solar eclipse of August 20, 1952 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.6102 |
| Magnitude | 0.942 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 6m 40s |
| Coordinates | 21.7S 64.1W |
| Max. width of band | 264 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 15:13:35 |
| References | |
| Saros | 144 (13 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9403 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1952. 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 | ||||||
