Solar eclipse of August 31, 1932

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Solar eclipse of August 31, 1932
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma 0.8307
Magnitude 1.0257
Maximum eclipse
Duration105 s (1 min 45 s)
Coordinates 54°30′N79°30′W / 54.5°N 79.5°W / 54.5; -79.5
Max. width of band155 km (96 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:03:41
References
Saros 124 (50 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9357
The total solar eclipse over a country road in Maine 1932 eclipse over Maine country road.webp
The total solar eclipse over a country road in Maine
A notice on the eclipse by the Maine Central Railroad Company August 31, 1932 Total Solar Eclipse MEC.jpg
A notice on the eclipse by the Maine Central Railroad Company

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Wednesday, August 31 and Thursday, September 1, 1932, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0257. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 3 days before perigee (on September 3, 1932, at 19:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller. [2]

Contents

Totality was visible from Northwest Territories (today's Northwest Territories and Nunavut) and Quebec in Canada, and northeastern Vermont, New Hampshire, southwestern Maine, the northeastern tip of Massachusetts, and northeastern Cape Cod in the United States. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of the eastern Soviet Union (on September 1 local time), North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.

Observations

Members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada made observations in Maskinongé, Magog, Acton Vale, Sorel-Tracy and Louisville in Quebec. The sky in Quebec was covered in clouds on the morning of August 31. In the afternoon, the clouds gradually dispersed, and observations of totality were successful. [3] In the northeastern United States, scientists also studied the reactions of animals during the eclipse. [4]

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse. [5]

August 31, 1932 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact1932 August 31 at 17:44:58.8 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1932 August 31 at 19:03:55.7 UTC
First Central Line1932 August 31 at 19:04:44.4 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1932 August 31 at 19:05:33.5 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1932 August 31 at 19:17:18.7 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1932 August 31 at 19:54:55.5 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1932 August 31 at 20:03:41.1 UTC
Greatest Duration1932 August 31 at 20:04:47.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1932 August 31 at 21:02:15.0 UTC
Last Central Line1932 August 31 at 21:03:06.5 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1932 August 31 at 21:03:57.4 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1932 August 31 at 22:22:37.3 UTC
August 31, 1932 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude1.02572
Eclipse Obscuration1.05209
Gamma0.83068
Sun Right Ascension10h39m17.5s
Sun Declination+08°30'34.8"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'51.0"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension10h40m49.4s
Moon Declination+09°14'00.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter16'06.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°59'08.4"
ΔT23.9 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of August–September 1932
August 31
Descending node (new moon)
September 14
Ascending node (full moon)
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Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 124
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 136

Eclipses in 1932

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 124

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1931–1935

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]

The partial solar eclipses on April 18, 1931 and October 11, 1931 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the solar eclipses on January 5, 1935 (partial), June 30, 1935 (partial), and December 25, 1935 (annular) occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1931 to 1935
Descending node Ascending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
114 September 12, 1931
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Partial
1.506119 March 7, 1932
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Annular
−0.9673
124 August 31, 1932
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Total
0.8307129 February 24, 1933
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Annular
−0.2191
134 August 21, 1933
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Annular
0.0869139 February 14, 1934
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Total
0.4868
144 August 10, 1934
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Annular
−0.689149 February 3, 1935
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Partial
1.1438
154 July 30, 1935
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Partial
−1.4259

Saros 124

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 124, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 6, 1049. It contains total eclipses from June 12, 1211 through September 22, 1968, and a hybrid eclipse on October 3, 1986. There are no annular eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on May 11, 2347. 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 totality was produced by member 39 at 5 minutes, 46 seconds on May 3, 1734. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [7]

Series members 43–64 occur between 1801 and 2200:
434445
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June 16, 1806
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June 26, 1824
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July 8, 1842
464748
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July 18, 1860
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July 29, 1878
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August 9, 1896
495051
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August 21, 1914
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August 31, 1932
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September 12, 1950
525354
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September 22, 1968
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October 3, 1986
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October 14, 2004
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October 25, 2022
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November 4, 2040
SE2058Nov16P.png
November 16, 2058
585960
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November 26, 2076
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December 7, 2094
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December 19, 2112
616263
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December 30, 2130
Saros124 62van73 SE2149Jan09P.jpg
January 9, 2149
Saros124 63van73 SE2167Jan21P.jpg
January 21, 2167
64
Saros124 64van73 SE2185Jan31P.jpg
January 31, 2185

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.

22 eclipse events between April 8, 1902 and August 31, 1989
April 7–8January 24–25November 12August 31–September 1June 19–20
108110112114116
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April 8, 1902
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August 31, 1913
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June 19, 1917
118120122124126
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April 8, 1921
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January 24, 1925
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November 12, 1928
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August 31, 1932
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June 19, 1936
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April 7, 1940
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January 25, 1944
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November 12, 1947
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September 1, 1951
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June 20, 1955
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April 8, 1959
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January 25, 1963
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November 12, 1966
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August 31, 1970
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June 20, 1974
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April 7, 1978
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January 25, 1982
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November 12, 1985
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August 31, 1989

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 2200
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September 8, 1801
(Saros 112)
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August 7, 1812
(Saros 113)
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July 8, 1823
(Saros 114)
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June 7, 1834
(Saros 115)
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May 6, 1845
(Saros 116)
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April 5, 1856
(Saros 117)
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March 6, 1867
(Saros 118)
SE1878Feb02A.gif
February 2, 1878
(Saros 119)
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January 1, 1889
(Saros 120)
SE1899Dec03A.png
December 3, 1899
(Saros 121)
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November 2, 1910
(Saros 122)
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October 1, 1921
(Saros 123)
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August 31, 1932
(Saros 124)
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August 1, 1943
(Saros 125)
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June 30, 1954
(Saros 126)
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May 30, 1965
(Saros 127)
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April 29, 1976
(Saros 128)
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March 29, 1987
(Saros 129)
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February 26, 1998
(Saros 130)
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January 26, 2009
(Saros 131)
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December 26, 2019
(Saros 132)
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November 25, 2030
(Saros 133)
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October 25, 2041
(Saros 134)
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September 22, 2052
(Saros 135)
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August 24, 2063
(Saros 136)
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July 24, 2074
(Saros 137)
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June 22, 2085
(Saros 138)
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May 22, 2096
(Saros 139)
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April 23, 2107
(Saros 140)
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March 22, 2118
(Saros 141)
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February 18, 2129
(Saros 142)
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January 20, 2140
(Saros 143)
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December 19, 2150
(Saros 144)
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November 17, 2161
(Saros 145)
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October 17, 2172
(Saros 146)
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September 16, 2183
(Saros 147)
Saros148 31van75 SE2194Aug16T.jpg
August 16, 2194
(Saros 148)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
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November 19, 1816
(Saros 120)
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October 30, 1845
(Saros 121)
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October 10, 1874
(Saros 122)
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September 21, 1903
(Saros 123)
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August 31, 1932
(Saros 124)
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August 11, 1961
(Saros 125)
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July 22, 1990
(Saros 126)
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July 2, 2019
(Saros 127)
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June 11, 2048
(Saros 128)
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May 22, 2077
(Saros 129)
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May 3, 2106
(Saros 130)
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April 13, 2135
(Saros 131)
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March 23, 2164
(Saros 132)
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March 3, 2193
(Saros 133)

Notes

  1. "August 31, 1932 Total Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  2. "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  3. "Past Solar Eclipses & Expeditions". Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016.
  4. William Morton Wheeler, Clinton V. MacCoy, Ludlow Griscom, Glover M. Allen and Harold J. Coolidge Jr. (March 1935). "Observations on the Behavior of Animals during the Total Solar Eclipse of August 31, 1932". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 70 (2). American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 33–70. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. "Total Solar Eclipse of 1932 Aug 31". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  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.
  7. "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 124". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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