Solar eclipse of April 19, 1958
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 19, 1958. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible in the Maldives, Nicobar Islands, Burma, Thailand including the capital city Bangkok, Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam (now belonging to Vietnam), China, British Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands and Japan. It was the fourth central solar eclipse visible from Bangkok from 1948 to 1958, where it is rare for a large city to witness 4 central solar eclipses in just 9.945 years. Places east of International Date line witnessed the eclipse on April 18 (Friday).
Solar eclipse of April 19, 1958 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.275 |
Magnitude | 0.9408 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 427 s (7 min 7 s) |
Coordinates | 26.5°N 123.6°E / 26.5; 123.6 |
Max. width of band | 228 km (142 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 3:27:17 |
References | |
Saros | 128 (55 of 73) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9416 |