Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955

Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.1528
Magnitude	1.0776
Maximum eclipse
Duration	428 sec (7 m 8 s)
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band	254 km (158 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	4:10:42
References
Saros	136 (34 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9410

A total solar eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. With a maximum duration of 7 minutes 8 seconds, this is the longest solar eclipse of saros series 136, as well as the longest total solar eclipse since the 11th century, and until the 22nd century.^[1] Totality beginning over the Indian Ocean and Maldives, crossing southern tip of India and Sri Lanka, moving across Indochina and the Philippines (near the greatest eclipse), towards Solomon Islands ending over Southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1953-1956

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.

Note: Partial solar eclipse of February 14, 1953 and August 9, 1953 belong to the last lunar year set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1953–1956
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Ascending node		Descending node
116	July 11, 1953 Partial	121	January 5, 1954 Annular
126	June 30, 1954 Total	131	December 25, 1954 Annular
136	June 20, 1955 Total	141	December 14, 1955 Annular
146	June 8, 1956 Total	151	December 2, 1956 Partial

Saros 136

Solar Saros 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on Jun 14, 1360, and reached a first annular eclipse on September 8, 1504. It was a hybrid event from November 22, 1612, through January 17, 1703, and total eclipses from January 27, 1721 through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622, with the entire series lasting 1262 years. The longest eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955, with a maximum duration of totality at 7 minutes, 8 seconds.^[2]

Series members 29–43 occur between 1865 and 2117:

29	30	31
April 25, 1865	May 6, 1883	May 18, 1901
32	33	34
May 29, 1919	Jun 8, 1937	Jun 20, 1955
35	36	37
Jun 30, 1973	Jul 11, 1991	Jul 22, 2009
38	39	40
Aug 2, 2027	Aug 12, 2045	Aug. 24, 2063
41	42	43
Sep. 3, 2081	Sep. 14, 2099	Sep. 26, 2117