Solar eclipse of November 23, 1965

Solar eclipse of November 23, 1965
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma 0.3906
Magnitude 0.9656
Maximum eclipse
Duration 242 sec (4 m 2 s)
Coordinates 1°42′N 119°48′E / 1.7°N 119.8°E / 1.7; 119.8
Max. width of band 134 km (83 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 4:14:51
References
Saros 132 (43 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9433

An annular solar eclipse occurred on November 23, 1965. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

Saros 132

It is a part of Saros cycle 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146, hybrid on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2183 and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. The longest duration of annular was 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and totality will be 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290.[1]

Metonic series

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).

Notes

  1. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros132.html

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