Solar eclipse of August 1, 1943
| Solar eclipse of August 1, 1943 | |
|---|---|
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.8041 |
| Magnitude | 0.9409 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 6m 59s |
| Coordinates | 34.8S 108.6E |
| Max. width of band | 367 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 4:16:13 |
| References | |
| Saros | 125 (50 of 73) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9383 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 1, 1943. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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, 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 thousands of kilometres wide.
Totality was visible in the southern Indian Ocean. It was visible from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, eastern Madagascar, Antarctica's Wilkes Land.
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Related eclipses [edit]
Solar eclipses 1942-1946 [edit]
Each member 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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | August 12, 1942 Partial |
120 | February 4, 1943 Total |
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| 125 | August 1, 1943 Annular |
130 | January 25, 1944 Total |
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| 135 | July 20, 1944 Annular |
140 | January 14, 1945 Annular |
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| 145 | July 9, 1945 Total |
150 | January 3, 1946 Partial |
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| 155 | June 29, 1946 Partial |
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References [edit]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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