Solar eclipse of October 23, 2014

Solar eclipse of October 23, 2014
Solar eclipse of October 23, 2014
	From Minneapolis, near greatest eclipse
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.0908
Magnitude	0.8114
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	71°12′N 97°12′W / 71.2°N 97.2°W
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	19:37:30
Greatest eclipse	21:45:39
(P4) Partial end	23:51:36
References
Saros	153 (9 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9540

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, October 23, 2014,^[1]^[2] with a magnitude of 0.8114. 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. Occurring only 5.7 days after apogee (Apogee on October 18, 2014), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.

It was the 9th eclipse of the 153rd Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on July 28, 1870 and will conclude with a partial eclipse on August 22, 3114.

Viewing[edit]

The center of the Moon's shadow missed the Earth, passing above the North Pole, but a partial eclipse was visible at sunrise (October 24 local time) in far eastern Russia, and before sunset (October 23) across most of North America.

Animated path

Gallery[edit]

Photograph of the eclipse projected with binoculars in Puebla, Mexico
Simulated greatest partiality from Nunavut, Canada at sunset
Seattle, Washington, 21:21 UTC
San Jose, California, 21:26 UTC. The eclipse coincided with giant sunspot region 2192, the largest seen in 24 years.^[3]
Minneapolis, Minnesota at 21:34 UTC
Buchanan, Virginia, 21:44 UTC
Austin, Texas, 22:00 UTC
Joshua Tree National Park, 22:14 UTC
Mentor, Ohio, 22:15 UTC
Los Altos, California, 22:16 UTC
College of DuPage, 22:28 UTC
Mountain View, California, 22:33 UTC
Melbourne, Florida, 22:38 UTC
Denver, Colorado, 22:40 UTC
Palo Alto, California, 22:42 UTC
Cupertino, California, 22:47 UTC
Coralville, Iowa, 22:56 UTC
Composite image from Melbourne, Florida
Composite image from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses of 2011–2014[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 January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011 to 2014
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
118 Partial in Tromsø, Norway	June 1, 2011 Partial	1.21300	123 Hinode XRT footage	November 25, 2011 Partial	−1.05359
128 Annularity in Red Bluff, CA, USA	May 20, 2012 Annular	0.48279	133 Totality in Mount Carbine, Queensland, Australia	November 13, 2012 Total	−0.37189
138 Annularity in Churchills Head, Australia	May 10, 2013 Annular	−0.26937	143 Partial in Libreville, Gabon	November 3, 2013 Hybrid	0.32715
148 Partial in Adelaide, Australia	April 29, 2014 Annular (non-central)	−0.99996	153 Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA	October 23, 2014 Partial	1.09078

A total solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, and a partial solar eclipse of September 13, 2015 occur during the next lunar year set.

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

Metonic series[edit]

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 ascending node.

22 eclipse events between January 5, 1935 and August 11, 2018
January 4-5	October 23-24	August 10-12	May 30-31	March 18-19
111	113	115	117	119
January 5, 1935		August 12, 1942	May 30, 1946	March 18, 1950
121	123	125	127	129
January 5, 1954	October 23, 1957	August 11, 1961	May 30, 1965	March 18, 1969
131	133	135	137	139
January 4, 1973	October 23, 1976	August 10, 1980	May 30, 1984	March 18, 1988
141	143	145	147	149
January 4, 1992	October 24, 1995	August 11, 1999	May 31, 2003	March 19, 2007
151	153	155
January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014	August 11, 2018