Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014

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Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
Partial Solar Eclipse April 29th 2014 (13898733668).jpg
Partial from Adelaide, Australia
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma −1.00001
Magnitude 0.9868
Maximum eclipse
Duration-
Coordinates 70°36′S131°18′E / 70.6°S 131.3°E / -70.6; 131.3
Max. width of band- km
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin3:52:38
(U1) Total begin5:47:50
Greatest eclipse6:04:33
(U4) Total end6:09:20
(P4) Partial end8:14:28
References
Saros 148 (21 of 75)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9539

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, [1] with a magnitude of 0.9868. 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. The center of the Moon's shadow missed the Earth's South Pole, but the partial eclipse was visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia, and an annular eclipse was visible from a small part of Antarctica.

Contents

This eclipse's gamma value was closer to 1 than any other eclipse from 2000 B.C. to 3000 A.D. This means the center of the Moon's shadow passed almost exactly at the surface of the Earth, barely missing the Antarctic continent by a few kilometers.

Visibility

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Animation of eclipse path

Images

Eclipses of 2014

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 148

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2011–2014

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. [2]

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
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
118
Partial solar eclipse Tromso 2011-05-31 (cropped).jpg
Partial in Tromsø, Norway
June 1, 2011
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Partial
1.21300123
Partial Solar Eclipse of 2011 11 25 -Hinode XRT- freeze frame.png
Hinode XRT footage
November 25, 2011
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Partial
−1.05359
128
Solar Eclipse May 20,2012.jpg
Annularity in Red Bluff, CA, USA
May 20, 2012
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Annular
0.48279133
Solar eclipse of 2012 november 14 near Mt Carbine.jpg
Totality in Mount Carbine, Queensland, Australia
November 13, 2012
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Total
−0.37189
138
Annular Solar Eclipse May 10 2013 Northern Territory Australia.JPG
Annularity in Churchills Head, Australia
May 10, 2013
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Annular
−0.26937143
2013 Solar Eclipse Libreville.JPG
Partial in Libreville, Gabon
November 3, 2013
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Hybrid
0.32715
148
Partial Solar Eclipse April 29th 2014 (13898733668).jpg
Partial in Adelaide, Australia
April 29, 2014
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Annular (non-central)
−0.99996153
Partial solar eclipse Oct 23 2014 Minneapolis 5-36pm Ruen1.png
Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA
October 23, 2014
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Partial
1.09078

Note: Total Solar Eclipse on March 20, 2015, and a Partial Solar Eclipse of September 13, 2015 occur during the next lunar year set.

Saros 148

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 148, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 75 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on September 21, 1653. It contains annular eclipses on April 29, 2014 and May 9, 2032; a hybrid eclipse on May 20, 2050; and total eclipses from May 31, 2068 through August 3, 2771. The series ends at member 75 as a partial eclipse on December 12, 2987. 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 22 at 22 seconds (by default) on May 9, 2032, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 54 at 5 minutes, 23 seconds on April 26, 2609. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [3]

Series members 10–31 occur between 1801 and 2200:
101112
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December 30, 1815
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January 9, 1834
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January 21, 1852
131415
SE1870Jan31P.gif
January 31, 1870
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February 11, 1888
SE1906Feb23P.png
February 23, 1906
161718
SE1924Mar05P.png
March 5, 1924
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March 16, 1942
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March 27, 1960
192021
SE1978Apr07P.png
April 7, 1978
SE1996Apr17P.png
April 17, 1996
SE2014Apr29A.png
April 29, 2014
222324
SE2032May09A.png
May 9, 2032
SE2050May20H.png
May 20, 2050
SE2068May31T.png
May 31, 2068
252627
SE2086Jun11T.png
June 11, 2086
Saros148 26van75 SE2104Jun22T.jpg
June 22, 2104
Saros148 27van75 SE2122Jul04T.jpg
July 4, 2122
282930
Saros148 28van75 SE2140Jul14T.jpg
July 14, 2140
SE2158Jul25T.png
July 25, 2158
Saros148 30van75 SE2176Aug04T.jpg
August 4, 2176
31
Saros148 31van75 SE2194Aug16T.jpg
August 16, 2194

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.

Metonic series

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 descending node.

21 eclipse events between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–11April 29–30February 15–16December 4September 21–23
116118120122124
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July 11, 1953
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April 30, 1957
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February 15, 1961
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December 4, 1964
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September 22, 1968
126128130132134
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July 10, 1972
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April 29, 1976
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February 16, 1980
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December 4, 1983
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September 23, 1987
136138140142144
SE1991Jul11T.png
July 11, 1991
SE1995Apr29A.png
April 29, 1995
SE1999Feb16A.png
February 16, 1999
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December 4, 2002
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September 22, 2006
146148150152154
SE2010Jul11T.png
July 11, 2010
SE2014Apr29A.png
April 29, 2014
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February 15, 2018
SE2021Dec04T.png
December 4, 2021
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September 21, 2025
156
SE2029Jul11P.png
July 11, 2029

Notes

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