Solar eclipse of December 13, 1936
| Solar eclipse of December 13, 1936 | |
|---|---|
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.2493 |
| Magnitude | 0.9349 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 7m 25s |
| Coordinates | 37.8S 172.6W |
| Max. width of band | 251 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 23:28:12 |
| References | |
| Saros | 131 (46 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9368 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 13, 1936. 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.
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Related eclipses [edit]
Solar eclipses of 1935-1938 [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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 111 | January 5, 1935 Partial |
116 | June 30, 1935 Partial |
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| 121 | December 25, 1935 Annular |
126 | June 19, 1936 Total |
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| 131 | December 13, 1936 Annular |
136 | June 8, 1937 Total |
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| 141 | December 2, 1937 Annular |
146 | May 29, 1938 Total |
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| 151 | November 21, 1938 Partial |
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Saros 131 [edit]
It is a part of Saros cycle 131, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 1, 1125. It contains total eclipses from March 27, 1522 through May 30, 1612 and hybrid eclipses from June 10, 1630 through July 24, 1702, and annular eclipses from August 4, 1720 through June 18, 2243. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on September 2, 2369. The longest duration of totality was only 58 seconds on May 30, 1612.[1]
Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
|---|---|---|
December 3, 1918 |
December 13, 1936 |
December 25, 1954 |
| 49 | 50 | 51 |
January 4, 1973 |
January 15, 1991 |
January 26, 2009 |
| 52 | 53 | 54 |
February 6, 2027 |
February 16, 2045 |
February 28, 2063 |
| 55 | 56 | |
March 10, 2081 |
March 21, 2099 |
Notes [edit]
References [edit]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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