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Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013
Partial from Libreville, Gabon
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureHybrid
Gamma0.3272
Magnitude1.0159
Maximum eclipse
Duration100 s (1 min 40 s)
Coordinates3°30′N 11°42′W / 3.5°N 11.7°W / 3.5; -11.7
Max. width of band58 km (36 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin10:04:34
(U1) Total begin11:05:17
Greatest eclipse12:47:36
(U4) Total end14:27:42
(P4) Partial end15:28:21
References
Saros143 (23 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)9538

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node on 3 November 2013. It was a hybrid eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.0159, with a small portion over the western Atlantic Ocean at sunrise as an annular eclipse, and the rest of the path as a narrow total solar eclipse. 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 hybrid solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's in sunrise and sunset, but at Greatest Eclipse the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's.

In this particular case the eclipse path starts out as annular. Further down the track it changes to total and then back to annular before the path ends.

It was the 23rd eclipse of the 143rd Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on March 7, 1617 and will conclude with a partial eclipse on April 23, 2897.

This hybrid solar eclipse started annular solar eclipse and ended total solar eclipse.

Viewing

Totality was visible from the northern Atlantic Ocean (east of Florida) to Africa (Gabon (landfall), R. Congo, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia), with a maximum duration of totality of 1 minute and 39 seconds, visible from the Atlantic Ocean south of Ivory Coast and Ghana.[1]

Places with partial darkening were the Eastern coast of North America, southern Greenland, Bermuda, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, Northern South America, almost all the African continent, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece, Malta, Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey and the Middle East.

This solar eclipse happened simultaneously with the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and it was possible to observe a partial solar eclipse in Abu Dhabi before the sunset while the F1 race took place, as shown briefly during its broadcast.[2]

From space

Simulated shadow path
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Eclipses of 2013

Solar eclipses 2011–2014

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]

The partial solar eclipses on January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011 to 2014
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
118

Partial in Tromsø, Norway 		June 1, 2011

Partial 		1.21300 123

Hinode XRT footage 		November 25, 2011

Partial 		−1.05359
128

Annularity in Red Bluff, CA, USA 		May 20, 2012

Annular 		0.48279 133

Totality in Mount Carbine, Queensland, Australia 		November 13, 2012

Total 		−0.37189
138

Annularity in Churchills Head, Australia 		May 10, 2013

Annular 		−0.26937 143

Partial in Libreville, Gabon 		November 3, 2013

Hybrid 		0.32715
148

Partial in Adelaide, Australia 		April 29, 2014

Annular (non-central) 		−0.99996 153

Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA 		October 23, 2014

Partial 		1.09078

Saros 143

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617. It contains total eclipses from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995; hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067; and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2897. 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 totality was produced by member 16 at 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 51 at 4 minutes, 54 seconds on September 6, 2518. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[4]

Series members 12–33 occur between 1801 and 2200:
12 13 14

July 6, 1815
July 17, 1833
July 28, 1851
15 16 17

August 7, 1869
August 19, 1887
August 30, 1905
18 19 20

September 10, 1923
September 21, 1941
October 2, 1959
21 22 23

October 12, 1977
October 24, 1995
November 3, 2013
24 25 26

November 14, 2031
November 25, 2049
December 6, 2067
27 28 29

December 16, 2085
December 29, 2103
January 8, 2122
30 31 32

January 20, 2140
January 30, 2158
February 10, 2176
33

February 21, 2194

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

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.

20 eclipse events between June 10, 1964 and August 21, 2036
June 10–11 March 28–29 January 14–16 November 3 August 21–22
117 119 121 123 125

June 10, 1964
March 28, 1968
January 16, 1972
November 3, 1975
August 22, 1979
127 129 131 133 135

June 11, 1983
March 29, 1987
January 15, 1991
November 3, 1994
August 22, 1998
137 139 141 143 145

June 10, 2002
March 29, 2006
January 15, 2010
November 3, 2013
August 21, 2017
147 149 151 153 155

June 10, 2021
March 29, 2025
January 14, 2029
November 3, 2032
August 21, 2036

Notes

References

  1. ^ Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 2013 Nov 03 NASA
  2. ^ "Rare 'hybrid' eclipse sweeps across the globe plunging parts of Europe, Africa and US into darkness". Belfast Telegraph. November 3, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 143". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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