Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962
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Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | -0.113 |
Magnitude | 0.9716 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 213 sec (3 m 33 s) |
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Max. width of band | 103 km (64 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 12:25:33 |
References | |
Saros | 135 (36 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9425 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on July 31, 1962. 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.
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Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 1961-1964
Each member 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.
Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
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Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |||
120 | ![]() February 15, 1961 Total |
125 | ![]() August 11, 1961 Annular |
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130 | ![]() February 5, 1962 Total |
135 | ![]() July 31, 1962 Annular |
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140 | ![]() January 25, 1963 Annular |
145 | ![]() July 20, 1963 Total |
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150 | ![]() January 14, 1964 Partial |
155 | ![]() July 9, 1964 Partial |
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Partial solar eclipses of June 10, 1964 and December 4, 1964 belong in the next lunar year set. |
Inex series
This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Inex series members between 1901 and 2100:
![]() September 9, 1904 (Saros 133) |
![]() August 21, 1933 (Saros 134) |
![]() July 31, 1962 (Saros 135) |
![]() July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) |
![]() June 21, 2020 (Saros 137) |
![]() May 31, 2049 (Saros 138) |
![]() May 11, 2078 (Saros 139) |
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).
This series has 21 eclipse events between July 31, 1924 and July 31, 2000.
July 31-Aug 1 | May 19-20 | March 7 | December 24-25 | October 12 |
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115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
![]() July 31, 1924 |
![]() May 19, 1928 |
![]() March 7, 1932 |
![]() December 25, 1935 |
![]() October 12, 1939 |
125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
![]() August 1, 1943 |
![]() May 20, 1947 |
![]() March 7, 1951 |
![]() December 25, 1954 |
![]() October 12, 1958 |
135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
![]() July 31, 1962 |
150px May 20, 1966 |
![]() March 7, 1970 |
![]() December 24, 1973 |
![]() October 12, 1977 |
145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
![]() July 31, 1981 |
![]() May 19, 1985 |
![]() March 7, 1989 |
![]() December 24, 1992 |
![]() October 12, 1996 |
155 | ||||
![]() July 31, 2000 |
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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