Solar eclipse of March 29, 1903

Solar eclipse of March 29, 1903
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma 0.8413
Magnitude 0.9767
Maximum eclipse
Duration 113 sec (1 m 53 s)
Coordinates 56°12′N 130°18′E / 56.2°N 130.3°E / 56.2; 130.3
Max. width of band 153 km (95 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 1:35:23
References
Saros 118 (62 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9288

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 29, 1903. 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 China (now northwestern China, Mongolia and northeastern China), Russia and northern Canada.

Solar eclipses 1902-1907

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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