Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908
Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.1389 |
Magnitude | 0.9655 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 240 s (4 min 0 s) |
Coordinates | 31°24′N 67°12′W / 31.4°N 67.2°W |
Max. width of band | 126 km (78 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 16:29:51 |
References | |
Saros | 135 (33 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9300 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, June 28, 1908,[1][2][3] with a magnitude of 0.9655. 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.
Places inside the annular eclipse included a part of North America including a part of Central Mexico around Mexico City and Orlando and Daytona Beach, Florida in the USA which occurred in the morning hours. In Africa, it included Rosso, Mauritania, the northernmost part of Senegal, Bamako and the southwestern French Sudan (now Mali), the southwesternmost part of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and northern British Gold Coast (now Ghana) which occurred before sunset.
Related eclipses[edit]
Eclipses in 1908[edit]
- A total solar eclipse on January 3, 1908.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on January 18, 1908.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on June 14, 1908.
- An annular solar eclipse on June 28, 1908.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 13, 1908.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on December 7, 1908.
- A hybrid solar eclipse on December 23, 1908.
Metonic[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 9, 1904
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 17, 1912
Tzolkinex[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 18, 1901
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 10, 1915
Half-Saros[edit]
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of June 23, 1899
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 4, 1917
Tritos[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 29, 1897
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919
Solar Saros 135[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 17, 1890
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1926
Inex[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 19, 1879
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 8, 1937
Triad[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 27, 1821
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
Solar eclipses of 1906–1909[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 February 23, 1906 and August 20, 1906 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1906 to 1909 | ||||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
115 | July 21, 1906 Partial |
−1.3637 | 120 | January 14, 1907 Total |
0.8628 | |
125 | July 10, 1907 Annular |
−0.6313 | 130 | January 3, 1908 Total |
0.1934 | |
135 | June 28, 1908 Annular |
0.1389 | 140 | December 23, 1908 Hybrid |
−0.4985 | |
145 | June 17, 1909 Hybrid |
0.8957 | 150 | December 12, 1909 Partial |
−1.2456 |
Saros 135[edit]
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511 through February 24, 2305; hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323 and March 18, 2341; and total eclipses from March 29, 2359 through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. 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 16 at 10 minutes, 41 seconds on December 24, 1601, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 62 at 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[5]
Series members 28–49 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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28 | 29 | 30 |
May 5, 1818 |
May 15, 1836 |
May 26, 1854 |
31 | 32 | 33 |
June 6, 1872 |
June 17, 1890 |
June 28, 1908 |
34 | 35 | 36 |
July 9, 1926 |
July 20, 1944 |
July 31, 1962 |
37 | 38 | 39 |
August 10, 1980 |
August 22, 1998 |
September 1, 2016 |
40 | 42 | 42 |
September 12, 2034 |
September 22, 2052 |
October 4, 2070 |
43 | 44 | 45 |
October 14, 2088 |
October 26, 2106 |
November 6, 2124 |
46 | 47 | 48 |
November 17, 2142 |
November 27, 2160 |
December 9, 2178 |
49 | ||
December 19, 2196 |
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Eclipse of the sun visible here Sunday". The Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, Georgia. 1908-06-27. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Splendid View of Yesterday's Phenomenon". Daily Mirror. London, London, England. 1908-06-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "SUN'S PARTIAL ECLIPSE VIEWED BY THOUSANDS". The Pittsburgh Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1908-06-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ 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 135". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References[edit]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC