Solar eclipse of September 20, 1960

Solar eclipse of September 20, 1960
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.2057
Magnitude	0.6139
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	72.1°N 74.1°W / 72.1; -74.1
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	22:59:56
References
Saros	153 (6 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9421

A partial solar eclipse occurred on September 20–21, 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. It began in northeast Russia near sunrise on September 21, and ended near sunset over North America on September 20, one day earlier because of the effects of the International Date Line.

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1957 to 1960
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
118	1957 April 30 Annular (non-central)		123	1957 October 23 Total (non-central)
128	1958 April 19 Annular		133	1958 October 12 Total
138	1959 April 8 Annular		143	1959 October 2 Total
148	1960 March 27 Partial		153	1960 September 20 Partial

References

• Eclipse of the Sun of September 20, 1960—Sky and Telescope magazine, volume 20, page 129.

External links

• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot1951/SE1960Sep20P.GIF
• http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEdata.php?Ecl=19600920