Solar eclipse of April 28, 1949

Solar eclipse of April 28, 1949
Solar eclipse of April 28, 1949
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.2068
Magnitude	0.6092
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	61°54′N 55°42′W / 61.9°N 55.7°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	7:48:53
References
Saros	147 (19 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9396

A partial solar eclipse occurred on Thursday, April 28, 1949. 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 1946–1949

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 1946 to 1949
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
117	1946 May 30 Partial	-1.07105	122	1946 November 23 Partial	1.10500
127	1947 May 20 Total	-0.35279	132	1947 November 12 Annular	0.37431
137	1948 May 9 Annular	0.41332	142	1948 November 1 Total	-0.35172
147	1949 April 28 Partial	1.20682	152	1949 October 21 Partial	-1.02696