# Solar eclipse of September 20, 1960

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Tuesday, September 20 and Wednesday, September 21, 1960, with a magnitude of 0.6139. 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.
A partial eclipse was visible for parts of the eastern Soviet Union on September 21 and Alaska, Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico on September 20.

## Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
September 20, 1960 Solar Eclipse Times :
| Event | Time (UTC) |
| First Penumbral External Contact | 1960 September 20 at 21:09:33.3 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 1960 September 20 at 22:16:00.6 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 1960 September 20 at 22:59:55.7 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 1960 September 20 at 23:13:03.1 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 1960 September 21 at 00:50:33.6 UTC |
September 20, 1960 Solar Eclipse Parameters :
| Parameter | Value |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.61389 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.51513 |
| Gamma | 1.20565 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 11h52m31.1s |
| Sun Declination | +00°48'39.5" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'55.9" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.8" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 11h53m54.7s |
| Moon Declination | +01°53'18.2" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 15'23.6" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°56'29.8" |
| ΔT | 33.5 s |

## Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
Eclipse season of September 1960 :
| September 5 Descending node (full moon) | September 20 Ascending node (new moon) |
| Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 127 | Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 153 |

## Related eclipses
### Eclipses in 1960

* A total lunar eclipse on March 13.
* A partial solar eclipse on March 27.
* A total lunar eclipse on September 5.
* A partial solar eclipse on September 20.

### Metonic

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 2, 1956
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1964

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 9, 1953
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 2, 1967

### Half-Saros

* Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 15, 1951
* Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 25, 1969

### Tritos

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 21, 1949
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971

### Solar Saros 153

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 10, 1942
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 2, 1978

### Inex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 11, 1931
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 31, 1989

### Triad

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 20, 1873
* Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2047

### 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 | Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending 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 153

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 153, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 28, 1870. It contains annular eclipses from December 17, 2104 through May 26, 2970. There are no hybrid or total eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on August 22, 3114. 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 will be produced by member 38 at 7 minutes, 1 seconds on September 5, 2537. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.
Series members 1–19 occur between 1870 and 2200: :
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| July 28, 1870 | August 7, 1888 | August 20, 1906 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| August 30, 1924 | September 10, 1942 | September 20, 1960 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
| October 2, 1978 | October 12, 1996 | October 23, 2014 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 |
| November 3, 2032 | November 14, 2050 | November 24, 2068 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 |
| December 6, 2086 | December 17, 2104 | December 28, 2122 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 |
| January 8, 2141 | January 19, 2159 | January 29, 2177 |
| 19 |
| February 10, 2195 |

### 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 2, 1880 and July 9, 1964 :
| December 2–3 | September 20–21 | July 9–10 | April 26–28 | February 13–14 |
| 111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
| December 2, 1880 | | July 9, 1888 | April 26, 1892 | February 13, 1896 |
| 121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
| December 3, 1899 | September 21, 1903 | July 10, 1907 | April 28, 1911 | February 14, 1915 |
| 131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
| December 3, 1918 | September 21, 1922 | July 9, 1926 | April 28, 1930 | February 14, 1934 |
| 141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
| December 2, 1937 | September 21, 1941 | July 9, 1945 | April 28, 1949 | February 14, 1953 |
| 151 | 153 | 155 |
| December 2, 1956 | September 20, 1960 | July 9, 1964 |

### 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 1982 :
| November 29, 1807 (Saros 139) | October 29, 1818 (Saros 140) | September 28, 1829 (Saros 141) | August 27, 1840 (Saros 142) | July 28, 1851 (Saros 143) |
| June 27, 1862 (Saros 144) | May 26, 1873 (Saros 145) | April 25, 1884 (Saros 146) | March 26, 1895 (Saros 147) | February 23, 1906 (Saros 148) |
| January 23, 1917 (Saros 149) | December 24, 1927 (Saros 150) | November 21, 1938 (Saros 151) | October 21, 1949 (Saros 152) | September 20, 1960 (Saros 153) |
| August 20, 1971 (Saros 154) | July 20, 1982 (Saros 155) |

### Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Series members between 1801 and 2200 :
| December 30, 1815 (Saros 148) | December 9, 1844 (Saros 149) | November 20, 1873 (Saros 150) |
| October 31, 1902 (Saros 151) | October 11, 1931 (Saros 152) | September 20, 1960 (Saros 153) |
| August 31, 1989 (Saros 154) | August 11, 2018 (Saros 155) | July 22, 2047 (Saros 156) |
| July 1, 2076 (Saros 157) | June 12, 2105 (Saros 158) | May 23, 2134 (Saros 159) |
| | April 12, 2192 (Saros 161) | |