Template:Solar eclipse set 1942–1946
Appearance
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]
The partial solar eclipses on March 16, 1942 and September 10, 1942 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipses on May 30, 1946 and November 23, 1946 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1942 to 1946 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
115 | August 12, 1942 Partial |
−1.5244 | 120 | February 4, 1943 Total |
0.8734 | |
125 | August 1, 1943 Annular |
−0.8041 | 130 | January 25, 1944 Total |
0.2025 | |
135 | July 20, 1944 Annular |
−0.0314 | 140 | January 14, 1945 Annular |
−0.4937 | |
145 | July 9, 1945 Total |
0.7356 | 150 | January 3, 1946 Partial |
−1.2392 | |
155 | June 29, 1946 Partial |
1.4361 |
- ^ 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.