Solar eclipse of April 19, 1939

Solar eclipse of April 19, 1939
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma 0.9388
Magnitude 0.9731
Maximum eclipse
Duration 109 sec (1 m 49 s)
Coordinates 73°06′N 129°06′W / 73.1°N 129.1°W / 73.1; -129.1
Max. width of band 285 km (177 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 16:45:53
References
Saros 118 (64 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9373

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 19, 1939. 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.

This annular eclipse is notable in that the path of annularity passed over the North Pole. Land covered in the path include part of Alaska, Canada, and Franz Josef Land, Ushakov Island and Vize Island in the Soviet Union (today's Russia).

Solar eclipses 1939-1942

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]

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.

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