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]
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1968 to 1971 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 119 |  1968 March 28 Partial |
−1.03704 | 124 |  1968 September 22 Total |
0.94507 | |
| 129 |  1969 March 18 Annular |
−0.27037 | 134 |  1969 September 11 Annular |
0.22014 | |
| 139 |  1970 March 7 Total |
0.44728 | 144 |  1970 August 31 Annular |
−0.53640 | |
| 149 |  1971 February 25 Partial |
1.11876 | 154 |  1971 August 20 Partial |
−1.26591 | |
| A partial solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 occurs in the next lunar year set. | ||||||
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- ^ 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.