A partial solar eclipse occurred on December 13, 1974. 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.
Solar eclipse of December 13, 1974 | |
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Map | |
Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.0797 |
Magnitude | 0.8266 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 66°48′N 69°24′W / 66.8°N 69.4°W |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 16:13:13 |
References | |
Saros | 151 (12 of 72) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9453 |
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]
Note: Partial solar eclipses on February 25, 1971 and August 20, 1971 occur in the next lunar year set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1971 to 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
116 | 1971 July 22 Partial |
1.51298 | 121 | 1972 January 16 Annular |
−0.93651 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
126 | 1972 July 10 Total |
0.68719 | 131 | 1973 January 4 Annular |
−0.26441 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
136 | 1973 June 30 Total |
−0.07853 | 141 | 1973 December 24 Annular |
0.41710 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
146 | 1974 June 20 Total |
−0.82388 | 151 | 1974 December 13Partial 1.07974 Metonic series edit 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).
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