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 February 14, 1953 and August 9, 1953 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1953 to 1956 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 116 | July 11, 1953 Partial |
1.4388 | 121 | January 5, 1954 Annular |
−0.9296 | |
| 126 | June 30, 1954 Total |
0.6135 | 131 | December 25, 1954 Annular |
−0.2576 | |
| 136 | June 20, 1955 Total |
−0.1528 | 141 | December 14, 1955 Annular |
0.4266 | |
| 146 | June 8, 1956 Total |
−0.8934 | 151 | December 2, 1956 Partial |
1.0923 | |
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.