Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938
Appearance
Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.1077 |
Magnitude | 0.7781 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 68°54′N 162°00′W / 68.9°N 162°W |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 23:52:25 |
References | |
Saros | 151 (10 of 72) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9372 |
A partial solar eclipse occurred on November 21, 1938. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1935–1938
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 3, 1935 and July 30, 1935 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1935 to 1938 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
111 | January 5, 1935![]() Partial |
−1.5381 | 116 | June 30, 1935![]() Partial |
1.3623 | |
121 | December 25, 1935![]() Annular |
−0.9228 | 126 | June 19, 1936![]() Total |
0.5389 | |
131 | December 13, 1936![]() Annular |
−0.2493 | 136![]() Totality in Kanton Island, Kiribati |
June 8, 1937![]() Total |
−0.2253 | |
141 | December 2, 1937![]() Annular |
0.4389 | 146 | May 29, 1938![]() Total |
−0.9607 | |
151 | November 21, 1938![]() Partial |
1.1077 |
Notes
- ^ 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.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC