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Solar eclipse of October 22, 1911

Solar eclipse of October 22, 1911
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.3224
Magnitude0.965
Maximum eclipse
Duration227 s (3 min 47 s)
Coordinates6°18′N 121°24′E / 6.3°N 121.4°E / 6.3; 121.4
Max. width of band133 km (83 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse4:13:02
References
Saros132 (40 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9307

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Sunday, October 22, 1911,[1][2][3] with a magnitude of 0.965. 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. Occurring about 5.75 days before apogee (on October 27, 1911, at 22:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[4]

Annularity was visible from the Russian Empire (the parts now belonging to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan), China, French Indochina (the part now belonging to Vietnam), Philippines, Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), Territory of Papua (now belonging to Papua New Guinea) including the capital city Port Moresby, and British Western Pacific Territories (the parts now belonging to Solomon Islands and Tuvalu, including the city of Honiara and Tulagi). A partial eclipse was visible for parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia, and Oceania.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[5]

October 22, 1911 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 1911 October 22 at 01:19:29.5 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 1911 October 22 at 02:23:49.9 UTC
First Central Line 1911 October 22 at 02:25:31.6 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 1911 October 22 at 02:27:13.6 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact 1911 October 22 at 03:39:33.3 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 1911 October 22 at 03:54:33.7 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 1911 October 22 at 04:09:22.2 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 1911 October 22 at 04:13:02.1 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact 1911 October 22 at 04:46:55.9 UTC
Greatest Duration 1911 October 22 at 04:53:44.9 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 1911 October 22 at 05:59:00.0 UTC
Last Central Line 1911 October 22 at 06:00:44.7 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 1911 October 22 at 06:02:29.3 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 1911 October 22 at 07:06:48.6 UTC
October 22, 1911 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.96497
Eclipse Obscuration 0.93116
Gamma 0.32241
Sun Right Ascension 13h42m39.4s
Sun Declination -10°38'28.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'04.4"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8"
Moon Right Ascension 13h43m12.3s
Moon Declination -10°22'21.8"
Moon Semi-Diameter 15'16.9"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°56'05.1"
ΔT 13.0 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of October–November 1911
October 22
Descending node (new moon)
November 6
Ascending node (full moon)
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 132
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 144

Eclipses in 1911

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 132

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1910–1913

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.[6]

The partial solar eclipse on August 31, 1913 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1910 to 1913
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
117 May 9, 1910

Total
−0.9437 122 November 2, 1910

Partial
1.0603
127 April 28, 1911

Total
−0.2294 132 October 22, 1911

Annular
0.3224
137 April 17, 1912

Hybrid
0.528 142 October 10, 1912

Total
−0.4149
147 April 6, 1913

Partial
1.3147 152 September 30, 1913

Partial
−1.1005

Saros 132

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 132, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 13, 1208. It contains annular eclipses from March 17, 1569 through March 12, 2146; hybrid eclipses on March 23, 2164 and April 3, 2182; and total eclipses from April 14, 2200 through June 19, 2308. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 25, 2470. 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 25 at 6 minutes, 56 seconds on May 9, 1641, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 61 at 2 minutes, 14 seconds on June 8, 2290. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[7]

Series members 34–56 occur between 1801 and 2200:
34 35 36

August 17, 1803

August 27, 1821

September 7, 1839
37 38 39

September 18, 1857

September 29, 1875

October 9, 1893
40 41 42

October 22, 1911

November 1, 1929

November 12, 1947
43 44 45

November 23, 1965

December 4, 1983

December 14, 2001
46 47 48

December 26, 2019

January 5, 2038

January 16, 2056
49 50 51

January 27, 2074

February 7, 2092

February 18, 2110
52 53 54

March 1, 2128

March 12, 2146

March 23, 2164
55 56

April 3, 2182

April 14, 2200

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 descending node.

22 eclipse events between March 16, 1866 and August 9, 1953
March 16–17 January 1–3 October 20–22 August 9–10 May 27–29
108 110 112 114 116

March 16, 1866

August 9, 1877

May 27, 1881
118 120 122 124 126

March 16, 1885

January 1, 1889

October 20, 1892

August 9, 1896

May 28, 1900
128 130 132 134 136

March 17, 1904

January 3, 1908

October 22, 1911

August 10, 1915

May 29, 1919
138 140 142 144 146

March 17, 1923

January 3, 1927

October 21, 1930

August 10, 1934

May 29, 1938
148 150 152 154

March 16, 1942

January 3, 1946

October 21, 1949

August 9, 1953

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

August 28, 1802
(Saros 122)

July 27, 1813
(Saros 123)

June 26, 1824
(Saros 124)

May 27, 1835
(Saros 125)

April 25, 1846
(Saros 126)

March 25, 1857
(Saros 127)

February 23, 1868
(Saros 128)

January 22, 1879
(Saros 129)

December 22, 1889
(Saros 130)

November 22, 1900
(Saros 131)

October 22, 1911
(Saros 132)

September 21, 1922
(Saros 133)

August 21, 1933
(Saros 134)

July 20, 1944
(Saros 135)

June 20, 1955
(Saros 136)

May 20, 1966
(Saros 137)

April 18, 1977
(Saros 138)

March 18, 1988
(Saros 139)

February 16, 1999
(Saros 140)

January 15, 2010
(Saros 141)

December 14, 2020
(Saros 142)

November 14, 2031
(Saros 143)

October 14, 2042
(Saros 144)

September 12, 2053
(Saros 145)

August 12, 2064
(Saros 146)

July 13, 2075
(Saros 147)

June 11, 2086
(Saros 148)

May 11, 2097
(Saros 149)

April 11, 2108
(Saros 150)

March 11, 2119
(Saros 151)

February 8, 2130
(Saros 152)

January 8, 2141
(Saros 153)

December 8, 2151
(Saros 154)

November 7, 2162
(Saros 155)

October 7, 2173
(Saros 156)

September 4, 2184
(Saros 157)

August 5, 2195
(Saros 158)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

December 20, 1824
(Saros 129)

November 30, 1853
(Saros 130)

November 10, 1882
(Saros 131)

October 22, 1911
(Saros 132)

October 1, 1940
(Saros 133)

September 11, 1969
(Saros 134)

August 22, 1998
(Saros 135)

August 2, 2027
(Saros 136)

July 12, 2056
(Saros 137)

June 22, 2085
(Saros 138)

June 3, 2114
(Saros 139)

May 14, 2143
(Saros 140)

April 23, 2172
(Saros 141)

Notes

  1. ^ "October 22, 1911 Total Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  2. ^ "PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 1911-10-23. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Solar Eclipse". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. 1911-10-23. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Annular Solar Eclipse of 1911 Oct 22". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 132". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

References