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Solar eclipse of January 14, 1907

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Solar eclipse of January 14, 1907
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.8628
Magnitude1.0281
Maximum eclipse
Duration145 s (2 min 25 s)
Coordinates38°18′N 86°24′E / 38.3°N 86.4°E / 38.3; 86.4
Max. width of band189 km (117 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse6:05:43
References
Saros120 (55 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9297

A total solar eclipse occurred on January 14, 1907. 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. Totality was visible from Russian Empire (the parts now belonging to Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan) and China (now northwestern China, Mongolia and northern part of northeastern China).

Observations

Supervision of a solar eclipse near station Chernjaevo on January 1, 1907

Observations of the solar eclipse were made from the Tian Shan Mountains.[citation needed]

Solar eclipses 1906–1909

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]

The partial solar eclipses on February 23, 1906 and August 20, 1906 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1906 to 1909
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
115 July 21, 1906

Partial
−1.3637 120 January 14, 1907

Total
0.8628
125 July 10, 1907

Annular
−0.6313 130 January 3, 1908

Total
0.1934
135 June 28, 1908

Annular
0.1389 140 December 23, 1908

Hybrid
−0.4985
145 June 17, 1909

Hybrid
0.8957 150 December 12, 1909

Partial
−1.2456

Saros 120

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD. It contains annular eclipses from August 11, 1059 through April 26, 1492; hybrid eclipses from May 8, 1510 through June 8, 1564; and total eclipses from June 20, 1582 through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 11 at 6 minutes, 24 seconds on September 11, 1113, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 60 at 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]

Series members 50–71 occur between 1801 and 2195:
50 51 52

November 19, 1816

November 30, 1834

December 11, 1852
53 54 55

December 22, 1870

January 1, 1889

January 14, 1907
56 57 58

January 24, 1925

February 4, 1943

February 15, 1961
59 60 61

February 26, 1979

March 9, 1997

March 20, 2015
62 63 64

March 30, 2033

April 11, 2051

April 21, 2069
65 66 67

May 2, 2087

May 14, 2105

May 25, 2123
68 69 70

June 4, 2141

June 16, 2159

June 26, 2177
71

July 7, 2195

See also

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.
  2. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 120". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

References