Solar eclipse of October 12, 1939

Solar eclipse of October 12, 1939
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Total
Gamma -0.9737
Magnitude 1.0266
Maximum eclipse
Duration 92 sec (1 m 32 s)
Coordinates 72°48′S 155°06′E / 72.8°S 155.1°E / -72.8; 155.1
Max. width of band 418 km (260 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 20:40:23
References
Saros 123 (49 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9374

A total solar eclipse occurred on October 12, 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

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]

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).

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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