Solar eclipse of October 12, 1958

Solar eclipse of October 12, 1958
Solar eclipse of October 12, 1958
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	−0.2951
Magnitude	1.0608
Maximum eclipse
Duration	311 s (5 min 11 s)
Coordinates	24°00′S 142°24′W / 24°S 142.4°W
Max. width of band	209 km (130 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:55:28
References
Saros	133 (42 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9417

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, October 12, 1958, with a magnitude of 1.0608. 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 in Tokelau, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Chile and Argentina. This solar eclipse occurred over 3 months after the final game of 1958 FIFA World Cup.

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	April 30, 1957 Annular (non-central)	0.9992	123	October 23, 1957 Total (non-central)	1.0022
128	April 19, 1958 Annular	0.275	133	October 12, 1958 Total	−0.2951
138	April 8, 1959 Annular	−0.4546	143	October 2, 1959 Total	0.4207
148	March 27, 1960 Partial	−1.1537	153	September 20, 1960 Partial	1.2057

Saros 133

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435 through January 13, 1526; a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544; and total eclipses from February 3, 1562 through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 25 at 1 minutes, 14 seconds on November 30, 1453, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 61 at 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.^[2]

Series members 34–55 occur between 1801 and 2200:
34	35	36
July 17, 1814	July 27, 1832	August 7, 1850
37	38	39
August 18, 1868	August 29, 1886	September 9, 1904
40	41	42
September 21, 1922	October 1, 1940	October 12, 1958
43	44	45
October 23, 1976	November 3, 1994	November 13, 2012
46	47	48
November 25, 2030	December 5, 2048	December 17, 2066
49	50	51
December 27, 2084	January 8, 2103	January 19, 2121
52	53	54
January 30, 2139	February 9, 2157	February 21, 2175
55
March 3, 2193

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2100
December 21, 1805 (Saros 119)	November 19, 1816 (Saros 120)	October 20, 1827 (Saros 121)
September 18, 1838 (Saros 122)	August 18, 1849 (Saros 123)	July 18, 1860 (Saros 124)
June 18, 1871 (Saros 125)	May 17, 1882 (Saros 126)	April 16, 1893 (Saros 127)
March 17, 1904 (Saros 128)	February 14, 1915 (Saros 129)	January 14, 1926 (Saros 130)
December 13, 1936 (Saros 131)	November 12, 1947 (Saros 132)	October 12, 1958 (Saros 133)
September 11, 1969 (Saros 134)	August 10, 1980 (Saros 135)	July 11, 1991 (Saros 136)
June 10, 2002 (Saros 137)	May 10, 2013 (Saros 138)	April 8, 2024 (Saros 139)
March 9, 2035 (Saros 140)	February 5, 2046 (Saros 141)	January 5, 2057 (Saros 142)
December 6, 2067 (Saros 143)	November 4, 2078 (Saros 144)	October 4, 2089 (Saros 145)
September 4, 2100 (Saros 146)

In the 22nd century:

Solar saros 147: annular solar eclipse of August 4, 2111
Solar saros 148: total solar eclipse of July 4, 2122
Solar saros 149: total solar eclipse of June 3, 2133
Solar saros 150: annular solar eclipse of May 3, 2144
Solar saros 151: annular solar eclipse of April 2, 2155
Solar saros 152: total solar eclipse of March 2, 2166
Solar saros 153: annular solar eclipse of January 29, 2177
Solar saros 154: annular solar eclipse of December 29, 2187
Solar saros 155: total solar eclipse of November 28, 2198

In the 23rd century:

Solar saros 156: annular solar eclipse of October 29, 2209
Solar saros 157: annular solar eclipse of September 27, 2220
Solar saros 158: total solar eclipse of August 28, 2231
Solar saros 159: partial solar eclipse of July 28, 2242
Solar saros 160: partial solar eclipse of June 26, 2253
Solar saros 161: partial solar eclipse of May 26, 2264
Solar saros 162: partial solar eclipse of April 26, 2275
Solar saros 163: partial solar eclipse of March 25, 2286
Solar saros 164: partial solar eclipse of February 22, 2297

Metonic series

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 ascending node.

22 eclipse events between December 24, 1916 and July 31, 2000
December 24–25	October 12–13	July 31-Aug 1	May 18–20	March 7–8
91	93	95	97	99
December 23, 1878	October 12, 1882	July 31, 1886	May 18, 1890	March 7, 1894
101	103	105	107	109
December 23, 1897	October 12, 1901	August 1, 1905	May 19, 1909	March 8, 1913
111	113	115	117	119
December 24, 1916	October 12, 1920	July 31, 1924	May 19, 1928	March 7, 1932
121	123	125	127	129
December 25, 1935	October 12, 1939	August 1, 1943	May 20, 1947	March 7, 1951
131	133	135	137	139
December 25, 1954	October 12, 1958	July 31, 1962	May 20, 1966	March 7, 1970
141	143	145	147	149
December 24, 1973	October 12, 1977	July 31, 1981	May 19, 1985	March 7, 1989
151	153	155	157	159
December 24, 1992	October 12, 1996	July 31, 2000	May 19, 2004	March 7, 2008
161	163	165	167	169
December 24, 2011	October 13, 2015	August 1, 2019	May 19, 2023	March 8, 2027