| Solar eclipse of May 9, 1967 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Partial |
| Gamma | 1.1422 |
| Magnitude | 0.7201 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Coordinates | 62°30′N 168°06′W / 62.5°N 168.1°W / 62.5; -168.1 |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 14:42:48 |
| References | |
| Saros | 147 (20 of 80) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9436 |
A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, May 9, 1967, with a magnitude of 0.7201. 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.
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]
The partial solar eclipses on January 14, 1964 and July 9, 1964 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1964 to 1967 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 117 | June 10, 1964 Partial |
−1.1393 | 122 | December 4, 1964 Partial |
1.1193 | |
| 127 | May 30, 1965 Total |
−0.4225 | 132 | November 23, 1965 Annular |
0.3906 | |
| 137 | May 20, 1966 Annular |
0.3467 | 142 | November 12, 1966 Total |
−0.33 | |
| 147 | May 9, 1967 Partial |
1.1422 | 152 | November 2, 1967 Total (non-central) |
1.0007 | |
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 147, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 80 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on October 12, 1624. It contains annular eclipses from May 31, 2003 through July 31, 2706. There are no hybrid or total eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 24, 3049. 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 9 minutes, 41 seconds on November 21, 2291. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[2]
| Series members 11–32 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 12 | 13 |
 January 30, 1805 |
 February 11, 1823 |
 February 21, 1841 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 |
 March 4, 1859 |
 March 15, 1877 |
 March 26, 1895 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 |
 April 6, 1913 |
 April 18, 1931 |
 April 28, 1949 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 |
May 9, 1967 |
 May 19, 1985 |
 May 31, 2003 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 |
 June 10, 2021 |
 June 21, 2039 |
 July 1, 2057 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 |
 July 13, 2075 |
 July 23, 2093 |
 August 4, 2111 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 |
 August 15, 2129 |
 August 26, 2147 |
 September 5, 2165 |
| 32 | ||
 September 16, 2183 | ||
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 2087 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 August 17, 1803 (Saros 132) |
 July 17, 1814 (Saros 133) |
 June 16, 1825 (Saros 134) |
 May 15, 1836 (Saros 135) |
 April 15, 1847 (Saros 136) |
 March 15, 1858 (Saros 137) |
 February 11, 1869 (Saros 138) |
 January 11, 1880 (Saros 139) |
 December 12, 1890 (Saros 140) |
 November 11, 1901 (Saros 141) |
 October 10, 1912 (Saros 142) |
 September 10, 1923 (Saros 143) |
 August 10, 1934 (Saros 144) |
 July 9, 1945 (Saros 145) |
 June 8, 1956 (Saros 146) |
May 9, 1967 (Saros 147) |
 April 7, 1978 (Saros 148) |
 March 7, 1989 (Saros 149) |
 February 5, 2000 (Saros 150) |
 January 4, 2011 (Saros 151) |
 December 4, 2021 (Saros 152) |
 November 3, 2032 (Saros 153) |
 October 3, 2043 (Saros 154) |
 September 2, 2054 (Saros 155) |
 August 2, 2065 (Saros 156) |
 July 1, 2076 (Saros 157) |
 June 1, 2087 (Saros 158) | |||
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 13, 1898 and July 20, 1982 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 13–14 | October 1–2 | July 20–21 | May 9 | February 24–25 |
| 111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
 December 13, 1898 |
 July 21, 1906 |
 May 9, 1910 |
 February 25, 1914 | |
| 121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
 December 14, 1917 |
 October 1, 1921 |
 July 20, 1925 |
 May 9, 1929 |
 February 24, 1933 |
| 131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
 December 13, 1936 |
 October 1, 1940 |
 July 20, 1944 |
 May 9, 1948 |
 February 25, 1952 |
| 141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
 December 14, 1955 |
 October 2, 1959 |
 July 20, 1963 |
May 9, 1967 |
 February 25, 1971 |
| 151 | 153 | 155 | ||
 December 13, 1974 |
 October 2, 1978 |
 July 20, 1982 | ||
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