Solar eclipse of March 27, 1960
| Solar eclipse of March 27, 1960 | |
|---|---|
UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 7:25:07 |
| References | |
| Saros | 148 (18 of 75) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9420 |
A partial solar eclipse observable from parts of Antarctic Ocean and Indian Ocean occurred on March 27, 1960. 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.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 1957–1960
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 1957 to 1960 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 118 |  1957 April 30 Annular (non-central) |
0.99918 | 123 |  1957 October 23 Total (non-central) |
-1.00218 | |
| 128 |  1958 April 19 Annular |
0.27499 | 133 |  1958 October 12 Total |
-0.29506 | |
| 138 |  1959 April 08 Annular |
-0.45463 | 143 |  1959 October 02 Total |
0.42075 | |
| 148 |  1960 March 27 Partial |
-1.15375 | 153 |  1960 September 20 Partial |
1.20565 | |
References
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.