Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927

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Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
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Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma 0.8163
Magnitude 1.0128
Maximum eclipse
Duration50 sec (0 m 50 s)
Coordinates 78°06′N73°48′E / 78.1°N 73.8°E / 78.1; 73.8
Max. width of band77 km (48 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse6:23:27
References
Saros 145 (17 of 77)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9344

A total solar eclipse occurred on June 29, 1927. 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. The path of totality crossed far northern Europe and Asia, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Soviet Union (today's Russia) on June 29 (Wednesday), and finally passed Amukta in Alaska on June 28 (Tuesday).

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Observation in England

This was the first total eclipse visible from British mainland soil for 203 years. The Astronomer Royal set up a camp to observe the eclipse from the grounnds of Giggleswick School in North Yorkshire, which was on the line of totality. [1] [2] An observer at Southport, where an estimated quarter of a million people were on the shore to watch, described the eclipse for the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada , describing it as "those memorable 23 seconds ... a landmark forever in the lives of those privileged to see for the first time the Sun's Corona, whose secrets are only revealed to us for some few minutes in each century." [3]

This eclipse is referenced in the closing pages of Dorothy L. Sayers' novel Unnatural Death. [4] Frances Brody's 2017 novel Death in the Stars is set at Giggleswick School while crowds were there to view the eclipse. [5]

Virginia Woolf recorded her impression of the eclipse, including the words "We had fallen. It was extinct. There was no colour. The earth was dead." [6]

Solar eclipses 1924–1928

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. [7]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1924–1928
Ascending node Descending node
115 July 31, 1924
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Partial
120 January 24, 1925
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Total
125 July 20, 1925
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Annular
130 January 14, 1926
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Total
135 July 9, 1926
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Annular
140 January 3, 1927
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Annular
145 June 29, 1927
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Total
150 December 24, 1927
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Partial
155 June 17, 1928
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Partial

Saros 145

This solar eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 145, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 77 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on January 4, 1639, and reached a first annular eclipse on June 6, 1891. It was a hybrid event on June 17, 1909, and total eclipses from June 29, 1927, through September 9, 2648. The series ends at member 77 as a partial eclipse on April 17, 3009. The longest eclipse will occur on June 25, 2522, with a maximum duration of totality of 7 minutes, 12 seconds. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node.

Series members 10–32 occur between 1801 and 2359
101112
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April 13, 1801
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April 24, 1819
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May 4, 1837
131415
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May 16, 1855
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May 26, 1873
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June 6, 1891
161718
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June 17, 1909
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June 29, 1927
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July 9, 1945
192021
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July 20, 1963
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July 31, 1981
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August 11, 1999
222324
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August 21, 2017
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September 2, 2035
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September 12, 2053
252627
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September 23, 2071
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October 4, 2089
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October 16, 2107
282930
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October 26, 2125
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November 7, 2143
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November 17, 2161
313233
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November 28, 2179
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December 9, 2197
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December 21, 2215
343536
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December 31, 2233
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January 12, 2252
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January 22, 2270
373839
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February 2, 2288
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February 14, 2306
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February 25, 2324
40
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March 8, 2342

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