Solar eclipse of February 14, 1953

Solar eclipse of February 14, 1953
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.1331
Magnitude	0.7596
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	0:59:30
References
Saros	149 (17 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9404

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A partial solar eclipse occurred on February 14, 1953. 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 1950-1953

Each member 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 1950–1953
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Ascending node		Descending node
119	March 18, 1950 Annular	124	September 12, 1950 Total
129	March 7, 1951 Annular	134	September 1, 1951 Annular
139	February 25, 1952 Total	144	August 20, 1952 Annular
149	February 14, 1953 Partial	154	August 9, 1953 Partial
Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 belongs to the next lunar year set