Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904

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Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma 0.1299
Magnitude 0.9367
Maximum eclipse
Duration487 s (8 min 7 s)
Coordinates 5°36′N94°42′E / 5.6°N 94.7°E / 5.6; 94.7
Max. width of band237 km (147 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse5:40:44
References
Saros 128 (52 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9290

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 17, 1904, [1] [2] [3] [4] also known as the "1904 St. Patrick's Day eclipse".[ citation needed ] 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.

Contents

The path of annularity covered southern German East Africa (now southern Tanzania), northeastern tip of Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), northern Grande Comore Island in French Comoros (now Comoros), southern British Seychelles (now Seychelles), British Mauritius (now Mauritius), most of the British Indian Ocean Territory (excluding the southern part of Diego Garcia), northwestern Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), southern Siam (now renamed as Thailand), French Indochina (the part now belonging to Cambodia, the southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including the major city Phnom Penh, now capital of Cambodia), all of the Paracel Islands, the northern tip of the American Philippines (now Philippines) and Japanese islands of Iwo Jima, South Iwo Jima and Minamitorishima.

In addition, a partial solar eclipse was seen within a much larger area, including the eastern half of Africa, southern West Asia, southern Afghanistan, South Asia except the northernmost tip of British Raj (now the northernmost tip of Pakistan), most of China except the northwest border, Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia, the extreme northern coast of Australia, northwestern Melanesia, central and western Micronesia, and southeastern Russian Empire.

Observations

N. Donitch of the Royal Russian Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of today's Russian Academy of Sciences) traveled to Phnom Penh (now capital of Cambodia) via Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in French Indochina and made observations there. The weather was clear on the eclipse day, with only some fog in the morning. Donitch used a spectrometer and recorded changes in the temperature in about 2.5 hours, which dropped for about 3°C [5] .

Solar eclipses 1902–1907

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. [6]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1902 to 1907
Descending node Ascending node
108 April 8, 1902
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Partial		113October 1, 1902
118 March 29, 1903
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Annular		123 September 21, 1903
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Total
128 March 17, 1904
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Annular		133 September 9, 1904
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Total
138 March 6, 1905
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Annular		143 August 30, 1905
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Total
148 February 23, 1906
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Partial		153 August 20, 1906
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Partial

Saros 128

This eclipse is a member of the Solar Saros cycle 128, which includes 73 eclipses occurring in intervals of 18 years and 11 days. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. From May 16, 1417, through June 18, 1471, the series produced total solar eclipses, followed by hybrid solar eclipses from June 28, 1489, through July 31, 1543, and annular solar eclipses from August 11, 1561, through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's descending node.

Series members 52–68 occur between 1901 and 2200
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March 17, 1904 		SE1922Mar28A.png
March 28, 1922 		SE1940Apr07A.png
April 7, 1940
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April 19, 1958 		SE1976Apr29A.png
April 29, 1976 		SE1994May10A.png
May 10, 1994
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May 20, 2012 		SE2030Jun01A.png
June 1, 2030 		SE2048Jun11A.png
June 11, 2048
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June 22, 2066 		SE2084Jul03A.png
July 3, 2084 		SE2102Jul15A.png
July 15, 2102
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July 25, 2120		August 5, 2138 (Partial)August 16, 2156 (Partial)
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August 27, 2174 (Partial)September 6, 2192 (Partial)

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.

Series members between 1801 and 2100
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December 21, 1805
(Saros 119)		 SE1816Nov19T.gif
November 19, 1816
(Saros 120)		 SE1827Oct20H.gif
October 20, 1827
(Saros 121)
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September 18, 1838
(Saros 122)		 SE1849Aug18T.gif
August 18, 1849
(Saros 123)		 SE1860Jul18T.gif
July 18, 1860
(Saros 124)
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June 18, 1871
(Saros 125)		 SE1882May17T.png
May 17, 1882
(Saros 126)		 SE1893Apr16T.png
April 16, 1893
(Saros 127)
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March 17, 1904
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February 14, 1915
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January 14, 1926
(Saros 130)
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December 13, 1936
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November 12, 1947
(Saros 132)		 SE1958Oct12T.png
October 12, 1958
(Saros 133)
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September 11, 1969
(Saros 134)		 SE1980Aug10A.png
August 10, 1980
(Saros 135)		 SE1991Jul11T.png
July 11, 1991
(Saros 136)
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June 10, 2002
(Saros 137)		 SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013
(Saros 138)		 SE2024Apr08T.png
April 8, 2024
(Saros 139)
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March 9, 2035
(Saros 140)		 SE2046Feb05A.png
February 5, 2046
(Saros 141)		 SE2057Jan05T.png
January 5, 2057
(Saros 142)
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December 6, 2067
(Saros 143)		 SE2078Nov04A.png
November 4, 2078
(Saros 144)		 SE2089Oct04T.png
October 4, 2089
(Saros 145)
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September 4, 2100
(Saros 146)

In the 22nd century:

In the 23rd century:

Notes

  1. ↑ "THIS ECLIPSE SKIPS AMERICUS". Americus Times-Recorder. Americus, Georgia. 1904-03-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-27– via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "An eclipse of the sun". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. 1904-03-17. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-27– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "ERIN GO BRAUGH". The Daily Journal. Freeport, Illinois. 1904-03-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-27– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Sun to be eclipsed today". The Brunswick News. Brunswick, Georgia. 1904-03-17. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-10-27– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Donitch, N. (1905). "On the observation of the Annular Solar eclipse in Indo-China on 16 march 1904". Izv. Russ.Astron.Ob-va (8/9): 276–279. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019.
  6. ↑ 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.

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