Solar eclipse of August 20, 1952

Solar eclipse of August 20, 1952
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.6102
Magnitude	0.942
Maximum eclipse
Duration	400 sec (6 m 40 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	264 km (164 mi)
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 partly 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's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1950-1953

Each member in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1950–1953

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
119	March 18, 1950 Annular		124	September 12, 1950 Total
129	March 7, 1951 Annular		134	September 1, 1951 Annular
139	February 25, 1952 Total		144	August 20, 1952 Annular
149	February 14, 1953 Partial		154	August 9, 1953 Partial
Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements