Solar eclipse of May 18, 1901
Solar eclipse of May 18, 1901 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | −0.3626 |
Magnitude | 1.068 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 389 s (6 min 29 s) |
Coordinates | 1°42′S 98°24′E / 1.7°S 98.4°E |
Max. width of band | 238 km (148 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 5:33:48 |
References | |
Saros | 136 (31 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9283 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on May 18, 1901. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of totality crossed Madagascar, Réunion, Mauritius, Indonesia, Papua, New Guinea.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1901-1902
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 solar eclipses on January 22, 1898 (total) and July 18, 1898 (annular) occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on April 8, 1902 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1898 to 1902 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
111 | December 13, 1898![]() Partial |
−1.5252 | 116 | June 8, 1899![]() Partial |
1.2089 | |
121 | December 3, 1899![]() Annular |
−0.9061 | 126![]() Totality in Wadesboro, North Carolina |
May 28, 1900![]() Total |
0.3943 | |
131 | November 22, 1900![]() Annular |
−0.2245 | 136 | May 18, 1901![]() Total |
−0.3626 | |
141 | November 11, 1901![]() Annular |
0.4758 | 146 | May 7, 1902![]() Partial |
−1.0831 | |
151 | October 31, 1902![]() Partial |
1.1556 |
Saros 136
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 14, 1360. It contains annular eclipses from September 8, 1504 through November 12, 1594; hybrid eclipses from November 22, 1612 through January 17, 1703; and total eclipses from January 27, 1721 through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 9 at 32 seconds on September 8, 1504, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 34 at 7 minutes, 7.74 seconds on June 20, 1955. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]
Series members 26–47 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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26 | 27 | 28 |
![]() March 24, 1811 |
![]() April 3, 1829 |
![]() April 15, 1847 |
29 | 30 | 31 |
![]() April 25, 1865 |
![]() May 6, 1883 |
![]() May 18, 1901 |
32 | 33 | 34 |
![]() May 29, 1919 |
![]() June 8, 1937 |
![]() June 20, 1955 |
35 | 36 | 37 |
![]() June 30, 1973 |
![]() July 11, 1991 |
![]() July 22, 2009 |
38 | 39 | 40 |
![]() August 2, 2027 |
![]() August 12, 2045 |
![]() August 24, 2063 |
41 | 42 | 43 |
![]() September 3, 2081 |
![]() September 14, 2099 |
![]() September 26, 2117 |
44 | 45 | 46 |
![]() October 7, 2135 |
![]() October 17, 2153 |
![]() October 29, 2171 |
47 | ||
![]() November 8, 2189 |
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.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 136". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Photo of Solar Corona May 18, 1901
- Eclipse of May 18, 1901 (Sumatra). Contact print from the original glass plate negative. Lick Observatory Plate Archive, Mt. Hamilton.
- Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 18, 1901 Reports on the Dutch Expedition to Karang Sago, Sumatra, by Dr. A. A. Nijland, March 1903, Utrecht, Published by the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Academy, Amsterdam
- Russia expedition for solar eclipse of May 18, 1901
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