Solar eclipse of November 25, 2011

Solar eclipse of November 25, 2011
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	-1.0536
Magnitude	0.9047
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	68.6°S 82.4°W
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	4:23:14
Greatest eclipse	6:21:24
(P4) Partial end	8:17:16
References
Saros	123 (53 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9534

A partial solar eclipse occurred on Friday 25 November, 2011. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. This eclipse was visible across Antarctica in its summer 24-hour day sunlight, and New Zealand near sunset with less than 20% of the Sun obscured. Parts of the western Antarctic Peninsula experienced nearly 90% obscuration of the Sun. The eclipse belonged to Saros 123 and was number 53 of 70 eclipses in the series.

This was the last of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on January 4, 2011, June 1, 2011, and July 1, 2011.

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Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2011

It proceeded the total lunar eclipse which occurred on December 10, 2011.

Solar eclipses 2011–2014

This eclipse is a member of the 2011–2014 solar eclipse 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][Note 1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011–2014
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
118 Partial from Tromsø, Norway	2011 June 1 Partial	1.2130	123	2011 November 25 Partial	-1.0536
128 Middlegate, Nevada	2012 May 20 Annular	0.4828	133 Cairns, Australia	2012 November 13 Total	-0.3719
138 Churchills Head, Australia	2013 May 10 Annular	-0.2693	143 Partial from Accra, Ghana	2013 November 3 Hybrid	0.3271
148 Partial from Adelaide, Australia	2014 April 29 Annular (non-central)	-0.9999	153 Partial from Minneapolis	2014 October 23 Partial	1.0908

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2076
July 1–2	April 19–20	February 5–7	November 24–25	September 12–13
107	109	111	113	115
July 1, 1981	April 20, 1985	February 6, 1989	November 24, 1992	September 12, 1996
117	119	121	123	125
July 1, 2000	April 19, 2004	February 7, 2008	November 25, 2011	September 13, 2015
127	129	131	133	135
July 2, 2019	April 20, 2023	February 6, 2027	November 25, 2030	September 12, 2034
137	139	141	143	145
July 2, 2038	April 20, 2042	February 5, 2046	November 25, 2049	September 12, 2053
147	149	151	153	155
July 1, 2057	April 20, 2061	February 5, 2065	November 24, 2068	September 12, 2072
157	159	161	163	165
July 1, 2076	April 19, 2080	February 6, 2084	November 25, 2087	September 13, 2091

Notes

The partial solar eclipses of January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occurred in the previous semester series.

References

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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[2] The partial solar eclipses of January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occurred in the previous semester series.

[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.