Solar eclipse of April 6, 1913

Solar eclipse of April 6, 1913
Solar eclipse of April 6, 1913
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.3147
Magnitude	0.4244
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	61°12′N 175°42′E / 61.2°N 175.7°E
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	17:33:07
References
Saros	147 (17 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9310

A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 6, 1913.^[1]^[2] 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.

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses 1910–1913[edit]

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.^[3]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1910 to 1913
Ascending node		Descending node
117	May 9, 1910 Total	122	November 2, 1910 Partial
127	April 28, 1911 Total	132	October 22, 1911 Annular
137	April 17, 1912 Hybrid	142	October 10, 1912 Total
147	April 6, 1913 Partial	152	September 30, 1913 Partial

References[edit]

^ "APRIL HEAVENS ARE DESCRIBED". The Times-Democrat. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1913-04-06. p. 59. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "THE HEAVENS IN APRIL". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee. 1913-04-06. p. 74. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ 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.