Solar eclipse of February 5, 1962

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Solar eclipse of February 5, 1962
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.2107
Magnitude1.043
Maximum eclipse
Duration248 s (4 min 8 s)
Coordinates4°12′S 178°06′E / 4.2°S 178.1°E / -4.2; 178.1
Max. width of band147 km (91 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse0:12:38
References
Saros130 (49 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)9424

A total solar eclipse occurred on Monday[1], February 5, 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. 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. Totality was visible from Indonesia, Netherlands New Guinea (now belonging to Indonesia), the Territory of Papua New Guinea (today's Papua New Guinea), British Solomon Islands (today's Solomon Islands), and Palmyra Atoll.

Observation[edit]

A team sent by Kyoto University of Japan observed this eclipse in Lae, the second largest city and a port on the east coast of the Territory Papua New Guinea. The spectrum was analyzed with spectrophotometry, and photometry of the inner corona was conducted.[2]

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses of 1961–1964[edit]

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.[3]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1961 to 1964
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Saros Map
120
1961 February 15
Total
125
1961 August 11
Annular
130
1962 February 5
Total
135
1962 July 31
Annular
140
1963 January 25
Annular
145
1963 July 20
Total
150
1964 January 14
Partial
155
1964 July 9
Partial
Partial solar eclipses of June 10, 1964 and December 4, 1964 belong in the next lunar year set.

Saros 130[edit]

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 20, 1096. It contains total eclipses from April 5, 1475 through July 18, 2232. There are no annular eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on October 25, 2394. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 41 seconds on July 11, 1619. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.[4]

Series members 43–56 between 1853 and 2300
43 44 45

November 30, 1853

December 12, 1871

December 22, 1889
46 47 48

January 3, 1908

January 14, 1926

January 25, 1944
49 50 51

February 5, 1962

February 16, 1980

February 26, 1998
52 53 54

March 9, 2016

March 20, 2034

March 30, 2052
55 56 57

April 11, 2070

April 21, 2088

May 3, 2106
58 59 60

May 14, 2124

May 25, 2142

June 4, 2160
61 62 63

June 16, 2178

June 26, 2196

July 8, 2214
64 65 66

July 18, 2232

July 30, 2250

August 9, 2268
67

August 20, 2286

Metonic series[edit]

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.

22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011.
September 11-12 June 30-July 1 April 17-19 February 4-5 November 22-23
114 116 118 120 122

September 12, 1931

June 30, 1935

April 19, 1939

February 4, 1943

November 23, 1946
124 126 128 130 132

September 12, 1950

June 30, 1954

April 19, 1958

February 5, 1962

November 23, 1965
134 136 138 140 142

September 11, 1969

June 30, 1973

April 18, 1977

February 4, 1981

November 22, 1984
144 146 148 150 152

September 11, 1988

June 30, 1992

April 17, 1996

February 5, 2000

November 23, 2003
154 156

September 11, 2007

July 1, 2011

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ https://www.calendar-365.com/1962-calendar.html
  2. ^ Kiroki Kurokawa, Susumu Tominaga, Jun Kubota, Ichiro Kawaguchi (1969). "The Flash Spectrum Observed at the Total Eclipse of February 5, 1962". Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 21: 141–166. Bibcode:1969PASJ...21..141K.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Saros Series catalog of solar eclipses". NASA.

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