Solar eclipse of August 1, 1943
Solar eclipse of August 1, 1943 | |
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Map | |
Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | -0.8041 |
Magnitude | 0.9409 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 419 sec (6 m 59 s) |
Coordinates | 34°48′S 108°36′E / 34.8°S 108.6°E |
Max. width of band | 367 km (228 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 4:16:13 |
References | |
Saros | 125 (50 of 73) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9383 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 1, 1943. 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. Totality was visible in the southern Indian Ocean. It was visible from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, eastern Madagascar, Antarctica's Wilkes Land.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1942-1946
Each member 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.
Note: The partial solar eclipse on September 10, 1942 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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115 | August 12, 1942 Partial |
120 | February 4, 1943 Total | |
125 | August 1, 1943 Annular |
130 | January 25, 1944 Total | |
135 | July 20, 1944 Annular |
140 | January 14, 1945 Annular | |
145 | July 9, 1945 Total |
150 | January 3, 1946 Partial | |
155 | June 29, 1946 Partial |
Metonic series
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).
21 eclipse events between July 31, 1924 and July 31, 2000 | ||||
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July 31-Aug 1 | May 19-20 | March 7 | December 24-25 | October 12 |
115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
July 31, 1924 |
May 19, 1928 |
March 7, 1932 |
December 25, 1935 |
October 12, 1939 |
125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
August 1, 1943 |
May 20, 1947 |
March 7, 1951 |
December 25, 1954 |
October 12, 1958 |
135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
July 31, 1962 |
May 20, 1966 |
March 7, 1970 |
December 24, 1973 |
October 12, 1977 |
145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
July 31, 1981 |
May 19, 1985 |
March 7, 1989 |
December 24, 1992 |
October 12, 1996 |
155 | ||||
July 31, 2000 |
Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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