Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906

Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906
Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.3731
Magnitude	0.3147
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	70°48′N 66°24′W / 70.8°N 66.4°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	1:12:50
References
Saros	153 (3 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9295

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, August 20, 1906,^[1]^[2] with a magnitude of 0.3147. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.^[3]

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses of 1902–1906[edit]

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.^[4]

The partial solar eclipses on May 7, 1902 and October 31, 1902 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on July 21, 1906 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1902 to 1906
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
108	April 8, 1902 Partial	1.5024	113	October 1, 1902
118	March 29, 1903 Annular	0.8413	123	September 21, 1903 Total	−0.8967
128	March 17, 1904 Annular	0.1299	133	September 9, 1904 Total	−0.1625
138	March 6, 1905 Annular	−0.5768	143	August 30, 1905 Total	0.5708
148	February 23, 1906 Partial	−1.2479	153	August 20, 1906 Partial	1.3731

Saros 153[edit]

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 153, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 28, 1870. It contains annular eclipses from December 17, 2104 through May 26, 2970. There are no hybrid or total eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on August 22, 3114. 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 will be produced by member 38 at 7 minutes, 1 seconds on September 5, 2537. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.^[5]

Series members 1–19 occur between 1870 and 2200:
1	2	3
July 28, 1870	August 7, 1888	August 20, 1906
4	5	6
August 30, 1924	September 10, 1942	September 20, 1960
7	8	9
October 2, 1978	October 12, 1996	October 23, 2014
10	11	12
November 3, 2032	November 14, 2050	November 24, 2068
13	14	15
December 6, 2086	December 17, 2104	December 28, 2122
16	17	18
January 8, 2141	January 19, 2159	January 29, 2177
19
February 10, 2195

Notes[edit]

^ "DIDN'T SEE ANY ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". The Eugene Guard. Eugene, Oregon. 1906-08-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "ECLIPSE DID NOT AFFECT THE RAYS OF OLD SOL IN OMAHA". Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska. 1906-08-20. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "What Is a Solar Eclipse?". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
^ 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 153". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.