Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922

Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.1711
Magnitude	0.9381
Maximum eclipse
Duration	470 s (7 min 50 s)
Coordinates	12.3°N 18°W / 12.3; -18
Max. width of band	233 km (145 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:05:26
References
Saros	128 (53 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9332

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 28, 1922. 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 Peru, Brazil, French West Africa (parts now belonging to Senegal, Mauritania and Mali), British Gambia (today's Gambia) including capital Banjul, French Algeria (today's Algeria), Italian Libya (today's Libya), Egypt, Kingdom of Hejaz and Sultanate of Nejd (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), and British Kuwait.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1921-1924

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 eclipse on July 31, 1924 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1921 to 1924
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
118	April 8, 1921 Annular	0.8869		123	October 1, 1921 Total	−0.9383
128	March 28, 1922 Annular	0.1711		133	September 21, 1922 Total	−0.213
138	March 17, 1923 Annular	−0.5438		143	September 10, 1923 Total	0.5149
148	March 5, 1924 Partial	−1.2232		153	August 30, 1924 Partial	1.3123

References

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