Solar eclipse of August 20, 1952

21°42′S 64°06′W / 21.7°S 64.1°W / -21.7; -64.1Max. width of band264 km (164 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse15:13:35ReferencesSaros144 (13 of 70)Catalog # (SE5000)9403

An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1952. 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. Annularity was visible from Peru including the capital city Lima, northeastern Chile, Bolivia including the constitutional capital Sucre and seat of government La Paz, Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil and Uruguay.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1950–1953

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1950 to 1953
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
119	1950 March 18 Annular (non-central)	-0.99880		124	1950 September 12 Total	0.89030
129	1951 March 7 Annular	-0.24196		134	1951 September 1 Annular	0.15570
139	1952 February 25 Total	0.46973		144	1952 August 20 Annular	-0.61023
149	1953 February 14 Partial	1.13308		154	1953 August 9 Partial	-1.34403
Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set.

Saros 144

It is a part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 11, 1736. It contains annular eclipses from July 7, 1880, through August 27, 2565. There are no total eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 5, 2980. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 52 seconds on December 29, 2168.

Series members 11–21 occur between 1901 and 2100:
11	12	13
Jul 30, 1916	Aug 10, 1934	Aug 20, 1952
14	15	16
Aug 31, 1970	Sep 11, 1988	Sep 22, 2006
17	18	19
Oct 2, 2024	Oct 14, 2042	Oct 24, 2060
20	21
Nov 4, 2078	Nov 15, 2096

Notes

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements