Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011
Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.0627 |
Magnitude | 0.8576 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 64°42′N 20°48′E / 64.7°N 20.8°E |
Times (UTC) | |
(P1) Partial begin | 6:40:11 |
Greatest eclipse | 8:51:42 |
(P4) Partial end | 11:00:52 |
References | |
Saros | 151 (14 of 72) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9531 |
The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
Greatest eclipse occurred at 08:51 UTC in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon had a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon's shadow passed a mere 510 km above Earth's surface.[1]
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. This was the first of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on June 1, 2011, July 1, 2011, and November 25, 2011.
It also proceeds the two total lunar eclipses occurring on June 15, 2011 and December 10, 2011.
Photo gallery
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Animated path
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Video from PROBA2 of SWAP at 6:52 UTC.
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From Marki, Poland at 8:33 UTC.
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From Krasnystaw, Poland at 8:36 UTC.
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From Bratislava, Slovakia at 8:43 UTC.
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From Petrov nad Desnou, Czech republic at 9:41 UTC.
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From Tomsk, Russia at 9:50 UTC.
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Video from Moscow at 9:53 UTC (12:53 MSK)
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From Krasnystaw, Poland at 9:55 UTC.
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Composite image from Bernau am Chiemsee, Germany
Related eclipses
- It is preceded two weeks earlier by the total lunar eclipse of December 21, 2010.
Solar eclipses 2008–2011
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.[2]
The partial solar eclipses on June 1, 2011 and November 25, 2011 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 2008 to 2011 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
121 Partial in Christchurch, New Zealand |
February 7, 2008 Annular |
−0.95701 | 126 Totality in Kumul, Xinjiang, China |
August 1, 2008 Total |
0.83070 | |
131 Annularity in Palangka Raya, Indonesia |
January 26, 2009 Annular |
−0.28197 | 136 Totality in Kurigram District, Bangladesh |
July 22, 2009 Total |
0.06977 | |
141 Annularity in Jinan, Shandong, China |
January 15, 2010 Annular |
0.40016 | 146 Totality in Hao, French Polynesia |
July 11, 2010 Total |
−0.67877 | |
151 Partial in Poland |
January 4, 2011 Partial |
1.06265 | 156 | July 1, 2011 Partial |
−1.49171 |
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.
22 eclipse events between January 5, 1935 and August 11, 2018 | ||||
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January 4–5 | October 23–24 | August 10–12 | May 30–31 | March 18–19 |
111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
January 5, 1935 |
August 12, 1942 |
May 30, 1946 |
March 18, 1950 | |
121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
January 5, 1954 |
October 23, 1957 |
August 11, 1961 |
May 30, 1965 |
March 18, 1969 |
131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
January 4, 1973 |
October 23, 1976 |
August 10, 1980 |
May 30, 1984 |
March 18, 1988 |
141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
January 4, 1992 |
October 24, 1995 |
August 11, 1999 |
May 31, 2003 |
March 19, 2007 |
151 | 153 | 155 | ||
January 4, 2011 |
October 23, 2014 |
August 11, 2018 |
Notes
- ^ Eclipses during 2011 NASA
- ^ 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