| Solar eclipse of March 18, 1969 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.2704 |
| Magnitude | 0.9954 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 0m 26s |
| Coordinates | 14.8S 116.3E |
| Max. width of band | 16 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 4:54:57 |
| References | |
| Saros | 129 (49 of 80) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9440 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 18, 1969. 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 28, 1968 Partial |
124 | September 22, 1968 Total |
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| 129 | March 18, 1969 Annular |
134 | September 11, 1969 Annular |
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| 139 | March 7, 1970 Total |
144 | August 31, 1970 Annular |
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| 149 | February 25, 1971 Partial |
154 | August 20, 1971 Partial |
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| A partial solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 occurs in the next lunar year set. | ||||||
It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses on April 8, 2005 and April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 .[1]
Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
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February 14, 1915 |
February 24, 1933 |
March 7, 1951 |
| 49 | 50 | 51 |
March 18, 1969 |
March 29, 1987 |
April 8, 2005 |
| 52 | 53 | 54 |
April 20, 2023 |
April 30, 2041 |
May 11, 2059 |
| 55 | 56 | |
May 22, 2077 |
June 2, 2095 |
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 |
