• Source: Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971

      • A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, July 22, 1971, with a magnitude of 0.0689. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
      A partial eclipse was visible for parts of the eastern Soviet Union and northern Alaska. This was the 70th and final solar eclipse from Solar Saros 116.


      Eclipse details


      Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.


      Eclipse season



      This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.


      Related eclipses




      = Eclipses in 1971

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      A total lunar eclipse on February 10.
      A partial solar eclipse on February 25.
      A partial solar eclipse on July 22.
      A total lunar eclipse on August 6.
      A partial solar eclipse on August 20.


      = Metonic

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      Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 11, 1975


      = Tzolkinex

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      Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 10, 1964


      = Half-Saros

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      Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of July 17, 1962
      Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 27, 1980


      = Tritos

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      Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 21, 1982


      = Solar Saros 116

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      Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953


      = Inex

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      Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 12, 1942
      Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 1, 2000


      = Triad

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      Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 22, 2058


      = Solar eclipses of 1971–1974

      =
      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.
      The partial solar eclipses on February 25, 1971 and August 20, 1971 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.


      = Saros 116

      =
      This eclipse is a part of Saros series 116, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 23, 727 AD. It contains annular eclipses from October 10, 907 AD through May 6, 1845. There are no hybrid or total eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 22, 1971. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
      The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 51 at 12 minutes, 2 seconds on December 25, 1628. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.


      = Metonic series

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      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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.


      = Tritos series

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      This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
      The partial solar eclipses on March 27, 1884 (part of Saros 108) and December 24, 1916 (part of Saros 111) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.


      = 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.


      References




      External links


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

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