Solar eclipse of July 30, 1916

Solar eclipse of July 30, 1916
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.7709
Magnitude	0.9447
Maximum eclipse
Duration	384 s (6 min 24 s)
Coordinates	29°S 132.4°E / -29; 132.4
Max. width of band	313 km (194 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	2:06:10
References
Saros	144 (11 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9318

An annular solar eclipse occurred on July 30, 1916. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, 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 of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible from only one country, Australia.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 1913–1917

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.

The partial solar eclipses on April 6, 1913 and September 30, 1913 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the solar eclipses on December 24, 1916 (partial), June 19, 1917 (partial), and December 14, 1917 (annular) occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1913 to 1917
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
114	August 31, 1913 Partial	1.4512		119	February 25, 1914 Annular	−0.9416
124	August 21, 1914 Total	0.7655		129	February 14, 1915 Annular	−0.2024
134	August 10, 1915 Annular	0.0124		139	February 3, 1916 Total	0.4987
144	July 30, 1916 Annular	−0.7709		149	January 23, 1917 Partial	1.1508
154	July 19, 1917 Partial	−1.5101

Saros 144

It is a part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 11, 1736. It contains annular eclipses from July 7, 1880 through August 27, 2565. There are no total eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 5, 2980. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 52 seconds on December 29, 2168.

Series members 11–21 occur between 1901 and 2100:
11	12	13
Jul 30, 1916	Aug 10, 1934	Aug 20, 1952
14	15	16
Aug 31, 1970	Sep 11, 1988	Sep 22, 2006
17	18	19
Oct 2, 2024	Oct 14, 2042	Oct 24, 2060
20	21
Nov 4, 2078	Nov 15, 2096

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements