Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927 | |
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UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 6:23:27 |
References | |
Saros | 145 (17 of 77) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9344 |
A total
Observation in England
This was the
This eclipse is referenced in the closing pages of Dorothy L. Sayers' novel Unnatural Death.[4] Frances Brody's 2017 novel Death in the Stars is set at Giggleswick School while crowds were there to view the eclipse.[5]
Virginia Woolf recorded her impression of the eclipse, including the words "We had fallen. It was extinct. There was no colour. The earth was dead."[6]
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1924–1928
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.[7]
Solar eclipse series sets from 1924 to 1928 | ||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||
115 | Partial |
120 | January 24, 1925 Total | |
125 | July 20, 1925 Annular |
130 | January 14, 1926 Total | |
135 | July 9, 1926 Annular |
140 | January 3, 1927 Annular | |
145 | June 29, 1927 Total |
150 | December 24, 1927 Partial | |
155 | June 17, 1928 Partial |
Saros 145
This solar eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 145, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 77 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on January 4, 1639, and reached a first annular eclipse on June 6, 1891. It was a hybrid event on June 17, 1909, and total eclipses from June 29, 1927, through September 9, 2648. The series ends at member 77 as a partial eclipse on April 17, 3009. The longest eclipse will occur on June 25, 2522, with a maximum duration of totality of 7 minutes, 12 seconds. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node.
Series members 10–32 occur between 1801 and 2359 | ||
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10 | 11 | 12 |
April 13, 1801 |
April 24, 1819 |
May 4, 1837 |
13 | 14 | 15 |
May 16, 1855 |
May 26, 1873 |
June 6, 1891 |
16 | 17 | 18 |
June 17, 1909 |
June 29, 1927 |
July 9, 1945 |
19 | 20 | 21 |
July 20, 1963 |
July 31, 1981 |
August 11, 1999 |
22 | 23 | 24 |
August 21, 2017 |
September 2, 2035 |
September 12, 2053 |
25 | 26 | 27 |
September 23, 2071 |
October 4, 2089 |
October 16, 2107 |
28 | 29 | 30 |
October 26, 2125 |
November 7, 2143 |
November 17, 2161 |
31 | 32 | 33 |
November 28, 2179 |
December 9, 2197 |
December 21, 2215 |
34 | 35 | 36 |
December 31, 2233 |
January 12, 2252 |
January 22, 2270 |
37 | 38 | 39 |
February 2, 2288 |
February 14, 2306 |
February 25, 2324 |
40 | ||
March 8, 2342 |
See also
- List of solar eclipses visible from Russia
- List of solar eclipses visible from the United Kingdom
References
- ^ "With the Astronomer Royal". The Guardian. 30 June 1927. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ "Eclipse archive". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 17 August 1999. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- Bibcode:1927JRASC..21..328S. Retrieved 9 January 2023 – via SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).
- ^ "Unnatural Death".
- ^ "Death in the Stars: the ninth Kate Shackleton mystery by Frances Brody". frances-brody.com. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ Popova, Maria (9 May 2018). "Darkness in the Celestial Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf's Arresting 1927 Account of a Total Solar Eclipse". The Marginalian. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ^ 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.
Sources
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by GSFC
- Fotos of Solar Corona June 29, 1927
- Russia expedition for solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
External links
- Recording the eclipse video of the Astronomer Royal's preparations, from Pathé News