An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, January 5, 1954, with a magnitude of 0.972. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The Moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because it occurred 7.5 days after apogee (on December 28, 1953, at 15:10 UTC) and 5.3 days before perigee (on January 10, 1954, at 9:40 UTC).
Annularity was visible from a part of Antarctica. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Antarctica and Oceania.
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.
+January 5, 1954 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1954 January 5 at 00:14:31.4 UTC First Umbral External Contact 1954 January 5 at 01:49:19.1 UTC First Central Line 1954 January 5 at 01:52:10.6 UTC Greatest Duration 1954 January 5 at 01:52:10.6 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 1954 January 5 at 01:55:13.3 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1954 January 5 at 02:10:41.6 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1954 January 5 at 02:21:50.0 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1954 January 5 at 02:32:00.6 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 1954 January 5 at 03:09:05.0 UTC Last Central Line 1954 January 5 at 03:12:04.6 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 1954 January 5 at 03:14:52.9 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1954 January 5 at 04:49:32.8 UTC
+January 5, 1954 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.97203 Eclipse Obscuration 0.94484 Gamma −0.92960 Sun Right Ascension 19h01m47.3s Sun Declination -22°41'10.7" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'15.9" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 19h02m34.8s Moon Declination -23°33'33.5" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'43.5" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°57'42.6" ΔT 30.7 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 January 1954 January 5Ascending node (new moon) January 19Descending node (full moon) Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 121 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 133
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1954 An annular solar eclipse on January 5. A total lunar eclipse on January 19. A total solar eclipse on June 30. A partial lunar eclipse on July 16. An annular solar eclipse on December 25.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 18, 1950 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 23, 1957
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 23, 1946 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 15, 1961
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of December 29, 1944 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of January 9, 1963
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 4, 1943 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 4, 1964
Solar Saros 121 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 25, 1935 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 16, 1972
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 24, 1925 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 15, 1982
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 6, 1867 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 4, 2040
Solar eclipses of 1953–1956
Saros 121
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
Notes
References