Solar eclipse of February 14, 1915
Solar eclipse of February 14, 1915 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.2024 |
Magnitude | 0.9789 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 124 s (2 min 4 s) |
Coordinates | 24°00′S 120°42′E / 24°S 120.7°E |
Max. width of band | 77 km (48 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 4:33:20 |
References | |
Saros | 129 (46 of 80) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9315 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, February 14, 1915,[1][2][3][4] with a magnitude of 0.9789. 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. Annularity was visible from Australia, Papua in Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), German New Guinea (now belonging to Papua New Guinea), and the South Seas Mandate of Japan (the parts now belonging to FS Micronesia and Marshall Islands, including Palikir).
Related eclipses[edit]
Eclipses in 1915[edit]
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on January 31, 1915.
- An annular solar eclipse on February 14, 1915.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 1, 1915.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 26, 1915.
- An annular solar eclipse on August 10, 1915.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on August 24, 1915.
Metonic[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 28, 1911
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 3, 1918
Tzolkinex[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 3, 1908
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922
Half-Saros[edit]
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of February 9, 1906
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of February 20, 1924
Tritos[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 14, 1926
Solar Saros 129[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 1, 1897
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 24, 1933
Inex[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 5, 1886
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 25, 1944
Triad[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 14, 1828
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001
Solar eclipses of 1913–1917[edit]
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.[5]
Solar eclipse series sets from 1913 to 1917 | ||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||
114 | August 31, 1913 Partial |
119 | February 25, 1914 Annular | |
124 | August 21, 1914 Total |
129 | February 14, 1915 Annular | |
134 | August 10, 1915 Annular |
139 | February 3, 1916 Total | |
144 | July 30, 1916 Annular |
149 | January 23, 1917 Partial | |
154 | July 19, 1917 Partial |
Saros 129[edit]
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 80 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses from May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969; hybrid eclipses from March 29, 1987 through April 20, 2023; and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 34 at 5 minutes, 10 seconds on October 4, 1698, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 58 at 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[6]
Series members 40–61 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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40 | 41 | 42 |
December 10, 1806 |
December 20, 1824 |
December 31, 1842 |
43 | 44 | 45 |
January 11, 1861 |
January 22, 1879 |
February 1, 1897 |
46 | 47 | 48 |
February 14, 1915 |
February 24, 1933 |
March 7, 1951 |
49 | 50 | 51 |
March 18, 1969 |
March 29, 1987 |
April 8, 2005 |
52 | 53 | 54 |
April 20, 2023 |
April 30, 2041 |
May 11, 2059 |
55 | 56 | 57 |
May 22, 2077 |
June 2, 2095 |
June 13, 2113 |
58 | 59 | 60 |
June 25, 2131 |
July 5, 2149 |
July 16, 2167 |
61 | ||
July 26, 2185 |
Tritos series[edit]
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Series members between 1801 and 2100 | |||
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December 21, 1805 (Saros 119) |
November 19, 1816 (Saros 120) |
October 20, 1827 (Saros 121) | |
September 18, 1838 (Saros 122) |
August 18, 1849 (Saros 123) |
July 18, 1860 (Saros 124) | |
June 18, 1871 (Saros 125) |
May 17, 1882 (Saros 126) |
April 16, 1893 (Saros 127) | |
March 17, 1904 (Saros 128) |
February 14, 1915 (Saros 129) |
January 14, 1926 (Saros 130) | |
December 13, 1936 (Saros 131) |
November 12, 1947 (Saros 132) |
October 12, 1958 (Saros 133) | |
September 11, 1969 (Saros 134) |
August 10, 1980 (Saros 135) |
July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) | |
June 10, 2002 (Saros 137) |
May 10, 2013 (Saros 138) |
April 8, 2024 (Saros 139) | |
March 9, 2035 (Saros 140) |
February 5, 2046 (Saros 141) |
January 5, 2057 (Saros 142) | |
December 6, 2067 (Saros 143) |
November 4, 2078 (Saros 144) |
October 4, 2089 (Saros 145) | |
September 4, 2100 (Saros 146) |
In the 22nd century:
- Solar saros 147: annular solar eclipse of August 4, 2111
- Solar saros 148: total solar eclipse of July 4, 2122
- Solar saros 149: total solar eclipse of June 3, 2133
- Solar saros 150: annular solar eclipse of May 3, 2144
- Solar saros 151: annular solar eclipse of April 2, 2155
- Solar saros 152: total solar eclipse of March 2, 2166
- Solar saros 153: annular solar eclipse of January 29, 2177
- Solar saros 154: annular solar eclipse of December 29, 2187
- Solar saros 155: total solar eclipse of November 28, 2198
In the 23rd century:
- Solar saros 156: annular solar eclipse of October 29, 2209
- Solar saros 157: annular solar eclipse of September 27, 2220
- Solar saros 158: total solar eclipse of August 28, 2231
- Solar saros 159: partial solar eclipse of July 28, 2242
- Solar saros 160: partial solar eclipse of June 26, 2253
- Solar saros 161: partial solar eclipse of May 26, 2264
- Solar saros 162: partial solar eclipse of April 26, 2275
- Solar saros 163: partial solar eclipse of March 25, 2286
- Solar saros 164: partial solar eclipse of February 22, 2297
Notes[edit]
- ^ "PARTIAL ECLIPSE TO-DAY". The Sun. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 1915-02-14. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia. 1915-02-15. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "SOLAR ECLIPSE. LARGE SUN SPOT VISIBLE". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. 1915-02-15. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "OLD SOL IS ECLIPSED, BUT NOT VISIBLE HERE". Vancouver Daily World. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 1915-02-15. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 129". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References[edit]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC