Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938

Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.1077
Magnitude	0.7781
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	68.9°N 162°W / 68.9; -162
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.

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
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

References

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