Solar eclipse of April 7, 1940 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.219 |
Magnitude | 0.9394 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 450 s (7 min 30 s) |
Coordinates | 19°12′N 128°30′W / 19.2°N 128.5°W |
Max. width of band | 230 km (140 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 20:21:21 |
References | |
Saros | 128 (54 of 73) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9375 |
An annular solar eclipse will occur on April 7, 1940.
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 August 12, 1942 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1939 to 1942 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
118 | April 19, 1939 Annular |
0.9388 | 123 | October 12, 1939 Total |
−0.9737 | |
128 | April 7, 1940 Annular |
0.219 | 133 | October 1, 1940 Total |
−0.2573 | |
138 | March 27, 1941 Annular |
−0.5025 | 143 | September 21, 1941 Total |
0.4649 | |
148 | March 16, 1942 Partial |
−1.1908 | 153 | September 10, 1942 Partial |
1.2571 |