Solar eclipse of May 29, 1938
Solar eclipse of May 29, 1938 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | −0.9607 |
Magnitude | 1.0552 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 245 s (4 min 5 s) |
Coordinates | 52°42′S 22°00′W / 52.7°S 22°W |
Max. width of band | 675 km (419 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 13:50:19 |
References | |
Saros | 146 (23 of 76) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9371 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on May 29, 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 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.
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 |
References
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- ^ 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.
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC