Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014

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Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
UTC)
(P1) Partial begin3:52:38
(U1) Total begin5:47:50
Greatest eclipse6:04:33
(U4) Total end6:09:20
(P4) Partial end8:14:28
References
Saros148 (21 of 75)
Catalog # (SE5000)9539

An

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. The center of the Moon's shadow missed the Earth's South Pole, but the partial eclipse was visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia, and an annular eclipse was visible from a small part of Antarctica.

This eclipse's gamma value was closer to 1 than any other eclipse from 2000 B.C. to 3000 A.D. This means the center of the Moon's shadow passed almost exactly at the surface of the Earth, barely missing the Antarctic continent by a few kilometers.

Visibility


Animation of eclipse path

Images

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2014

Solar eclipses 2011–2014

This eclipse is a member of the 2011–2014 solar eclipse 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][Note 1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011 to 2014
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
118

Partial from Tromsø, Norway
2011 June 01

Partial (north)
1.21300 123

Hinode XRT footage
2011 November 25

Partial (south)
−1.05359
128

Middlegate, Nevada
2012 May 20

Annular
0.48279 133

Cairns, Australia
2012 November 13

Total
−0.37189
138

Churchills Head, Australia
2013 May 10

Annular
−0.26937 143
Libreville, Gabon
2013 November 03

Hybrid
0.32715
148

Partial from Adelaide, Australia
2014 April 29

Annular (non-central)
−0.99996 153

Partial from Minneapolis
2014 October 23

Partial (north)
1.09078

Note: Total Solar Eclipse on March 20, 2015, and a Partial Solar Eclipse of September 13, 2015 occur during the next lunar year set.

Saros 148

Solar saros 148, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 75 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on September 21, 1653. It has annular eclipses on April 29, 2014, and May 9, 2032, and a hybrid eclipse on May 20, 2050. It has total eclipses from May 31, 2068, to August 3, 2771. The series ends at member 75 as a partial eclipse on December 12, 2987. The longest total eclipse will be on April 26, 2609, at 5 minutes and 23 seconds.[3]

Series members 15–25 occur between 1901 and 2100:
15 16 17

February 23, 1906

March 5, 1924

March 16, 1942
18 19 20

March 27, 1960

April 7, 1978

April 17, 1996
21 22 23

April 29, 2014

May 9, 2032

May 20, 2050
24 25

May 31, 2068

June 11, 2086

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.

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.

21 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12 April 29–30 February 15–16 December 4–5 September 21–23
116 118 120 122 124

July 11, 1953

April 30, 1957

February 15, 1961

December 4, 1964

September 22, 1968
126 128 130 132 134

July 10, 1972

April 29, 1976

February 16, 1980

December 4, 1983

September 23, 1987
136 138 140 142 144

July 11, 1991

April 29, 1995

February 16, 1999

December 4, 2002

September 22, 2006
146 148 150 152 154

July 11, 2010

April 29, 2014

February 15, 2018

December 4, 2021

September 21, 2025
156 158 160 162 164

July 11, 2029

Notes

  1. ^ The partial solar eclipses of January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occurred in the previous semester series.

References

  1. ^ "Antarctic prime spot for Tuesday's solar eclipse". The Brownsville Herald. 2014-04-30. p. 21. Retrieved 2023-10-26 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.

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