Solar eclipse of April 28, 1949

20th-century partial solar eclipse

61°54′N 55°42′W / 61.9°N 55.7°W / 61.9; -55.7Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse7:48:53ReferencesSaros147 (19 of 80)Catalog # (SE5000)9396

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, April 28, 1949, with a magnitude of 0.6092. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1949

A total lunar eclipse on April 13, 1949.
A partial solar eclipse on April 28, 1949.
A total lunar eclipse on October 7, 1949.
A partial solar eclipse on October 21, 1949.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1945
Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 14, 1953

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 16, 1942
Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 8, 1956

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 22, 1940
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 3, 1958

Solar eclipses of 1946–1949

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1946 to 1949
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
117	1946 May 30 Partial	-1.07105	122	1946 November 23 Partial	1.10500
127	1947 May 20 Total	-0.35279	132	1947 November 12 Annular	0.37431
137	1948 May 9 Annular	0.41332	142	1948 November 1 Total	-0.35172
147	1949 April 28 Partial	1.20682	152	1949 October 21 Partial	-1.02696

Saros 147

Solar saros 147, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 80 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on October 12, 1624. It has annular eclipses from May 31, 2003, to July 31, 2706. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 24, 3049. The longest annular eclipse will be on November 21, 2291, at 9 minutes and 41 seconds.^[2]

Series members 17–27 occur between 1901 and 2100:
17	18	19
April 6, 1913	April 18, 1931	April 28, 1949
20	21	22
May 9, 1967	May 19, 1985	May 31, 2003
23	24	25
June 10, 2021	June 21, 2039	July 1, 2057
26	27
July 13, 2075	July 23, 2093

References

^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.

External links

Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Besselian elements

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