Solar eclipse of January 3, 1927

Solar eclipse of January 3, 1927
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.4956
Magnitude 0.9995
Maximum eclipse
Duration 3 sec (0 m 3 s)
Coordinates 52°48′S 124°48′W / 52.8°S 124.8°W / -52.8; -124.8
Max. width of band 2 km (1.2 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 20:22:53
References
Saros 140 (24 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9343

An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 3, 1927. 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 New Zealand on January 4, and Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil on January 3.

Observations


View of the eclipse from Buenos Aires

Solar eclipses 1924-1928

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.

References


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