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Template:Solar eclipse set 1968–1971

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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 eclipse on July 22, 1971 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1968 to 1971
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
119 March 28, 1968

Partial
−1.037 124 September 22, 1968

Total
0.9451
129 March 18, 1969

Annular
−0.2704 134 September 11, 1969

Annular
0.2201
139

Totality in Williamston, NC
USA
March 7, 1970

Total
0.4473 144 August 31, 1970

Annular
−0.5364
149 February 25, 1971

Partial
1.1188 154 August 20, 1971

Partial
−1.2659
  1. ^ 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.