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 eclipse on August 12, 1942 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1939 to 1942 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 118 | April 19, 1939 Annular |
0.9388 | 123 | October 12, 1939 Total |
−0.9737 | |
| 128 | April 7, 1940 Annular |
0.219 | 133 | October 1, 1940 Total |
−0.2573 | |
| 138 | March 27, 1941 Annular |
−0.5025 | 143 | September 21, 1941 Total |
0.4649 | |
| 148 | March 16, 1942 Partial |
−1.1908 | 153 | September 10, 1942 Partial |
1.2571 | |
- ^ 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.