Solar eclipse of March 6, 1905

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Solar eclipse of March 6, 1905
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma −0.5768
Magnitude 0.9269
Maximum eclipse
Duration478 s (7 min 58 s)
Coordinates 39°30′S117°24′E / 39.5°S 117.4°E / -39.5; 117.4
Max. width of band334 km (208 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse5:12:26
References
Saros 138 (25 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9292

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, March 6, 1905, [1] [2] [3] with a magnitude of 0.9269. 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. Occurring about 2.1 days before apogee (on March 8, 1905, at 7:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller. [4]

Contents

Annularity was visible from Heard Island and McDonald Islands (now an Australian external territory), Australia, New Caledonia, and New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Madagascar, Antarctica, Australia, and Oceania.

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]

March 6, 1905 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact1905 March 06 at 02:19:16.2 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1905 March 06 at 03:32:13.3 UTC
First Central Line1905 March 06 at 03:35:52.7 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1905 March 06 at 03:39:35.1 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1905 March 06 at 04:51:33.7 UTC
Greatest Duration1905 March 06 at 05:10:13.7 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1905 March 06 at 05:12:25.7 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1905 March 06 at 05:19:19.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1905 March 06 at 06:45:31.2 UTC
Last Central Line1905 March 06 at 06:49:14.2 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1905 March 06 at 06:52:54.4 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1905 March 06 at 08:05:47.3 UTC
March 6, 1905 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.92691
Eclipse Obscuration0.85916
Gamma−0.57684
Sun Right Ascension23h04m40.3s
Sun Declination-05°55'14.1"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'07.0"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension23h05m16.9s
Moon Declination-06°25'02.0"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'45.4"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'09.6"
ΔT4.1 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 February–March 1905
February 19
Ascending node (full moon)		 March 6
Descending node (new moon)
Lunar eclipse chart close-1905Feb19.png SE1905Mar06A.png
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 112		 Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 138

Eclipses in 1905

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 138

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1902–1906

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 May 7, 1902 and October 31, 1902 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on July 21, 1906 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1902 to 1906
Descending node Ascending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
108 April 8, 1902
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Partial		1.5024113October 1, 1902
118 March 29, 1903
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Annular		0.8413123 September 21, 1903
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Total		−0.8967
128 March 17, 1904
SE1904Mar17A.png
Annular		0.1299133 September 9, 1904
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Total		−0.1625
138 March 6, 1905
SE1905Mar06A.png
Annular		−0.5768143
PSM V68 D565 Sun corona of August 30 1905 taken with 40 foot camera.png 		August 30, 1905
SE1905Aug30T.png
Total		0.5708
148 February 23, 1906
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Partial		−1.2479153 August 20, 1906
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Partial		1.3731

Saros 138

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482; a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500; and total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. 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 was produced by member 23 at 8 minutes, 2 seconds on February 11, 1869, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 61 at 56 seconds on April 3, 2554. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [7]

Series members 20–41 occur between 1801 and 2200:
202122
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January 10, 1815		 SE1833Jan20A.png
January 20, 1833		 SE1851Feb01A.png
February 1, 1851
232425
SE1869Feb11A.png
February 11, 1869		 SE1887Feb22A.png
February 22, 1887		 SE1905Mar06A.png
March 6, 1905
262728
SE1923Mar17A.png
March 17, 1923 		SE1941Mar27A.png
March 27, 1941 		SE1959Apr08A.png
April 8, 1959
293031
SE1977Apr18A.png
April 18, 1977 		SE1995Apr29A.png
April 29, 1995 		SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013
323334
SE2031May21A.png
May 21, 2031 		SE2049May31A.png
May 31, 2049 		SE2067Jun11A.png
June 11, 2067
353637
SE2085Jun22A.png
June 22, 2085 		SE2103Jul04A.png
July 4, 2103		 SE2121Jul14A.png
July 14, 2121
383940
SE2139Jul25A.png
July 25, 2139		 SE2157Aug05A.png
August 5, 2157		 SE2175Aug16A.png
August 16, 2175
41
SE2193Aug26A.png
August 26, 2193

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 March 5, 1848 and July 30, 1935
March 5–6December 22–24October 9–11July 29–30May 17–18
108110112114116
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March 5, 1848		 SE1859Jul29P.gif
July 29, 1859		 SE1863May17P.gif
May 17, 1863
118120122124126
SE1867Mar06A.gif
March 6, 1867		 SE1870Dec22T.png
December 22, 1870 		SE1874Oct10An.gif
October 10, 1874		 SE1878Jul29T.png
July 29, 1878 		SE1882May17T.png
May 17, 1882
128130132134136
SE1886Mar05A.gif
March 5, 1886		 SE1889Dec22T.png
December 22, 1889 		SE1893Oct09A.png
October 9, 1893		 SE1897Jul29A.png
July 29, 1897		 SE1901May18T.png
May 18, 1901
138140142144146
SE1905Mar06A.png
March 6, 1905 		SE1908Dec23H.png
December 23, 1908 		SE1912Oct10T.png
October 10, 1912 		SE1916Jul30A.png
July 30, 1916 		SE1920May18P.png
May 18, 1920
148150152154
SE1924Mar05P.png
March 5, 1924 		SE1927Dec24P.png
December 24, 1927 		SE1931Oct11P.png
October 11, 1931 		SE1935Jul30P.png
July 30, 1935

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.

The partial solar eclipses on December 18, 2188 (part of Saros 164) and November 18, 2199 (part of Saros 165) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2134
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December 10, 1806
(Saros 129)		 SE1817Nov09T.gif
November 9, 1817
(Saros 130)		 SE1828Oct09A.gif
October 9, 1828
(Saros 131)		 SE1839Sep07A.png
September 7, 1839
(Saros 132)		 SE1850Aug07T.gif
August 7, 1850
(Saros 133)
SE1861Jul08A.gif
July 8, 1861
(Saros 134)		 SE1872Jun06A.gif
June 6, 1872
(Saros 135)		 SE1883May06T.png
May 6, 1883
(Saros 136)		 SE1894Apr06H.gif
April 6, 1894
(Saros 137)		 SE1905Mar06A.png
March 6, 1905
(Saros 138)
SE1916Feb03T.png
February 3, 1916
(Saros 139)		 SE1927Jan03A.png
January 3, 1927
(Saros 140)		 SE1937Dec02A.png
December 2, 1937
(Saros 141)		 SE1948Nov01T.png
November 1, 1948
(Saros 142)		 SE1959Oct02T.png
October 2, 1959
(Saros 143)
SE1970Aug31A.png
August 31, 1970
(Saros 144)		 SE1981Jul31T.png
July 31, 1981
(Saros 145)		 SE1992Jun30T.png
June 30, 1992
(Saros 146)		 SE2003May31A.png
May 31, 2003
(Saros 147)		 SE2014Apr29A.png
April 29, 2014
(Saros 148)
SE2025Mar29P.png
March 29, 2025
(Saros 149)		 SE2036Feb27P.png
February 27, 2036
(Saros 150)		 SE2047Jan26P.png
January 26, 2047
(Saros 151)		 SE2057Dec26T.png
December 26, 2057
(Saros 152)		 SE2068Nov24P.png
November 24, 2068
(Saros 153)
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October 24, 2079
(Saros 154)		 SE2090Sep23T.png
September 23, 2090
(Saros 155)		 Saros156 06van69 SE2101Aug24P.jpg
August 24, 2101
(Saros 156)		 Saros157 04van70 SE2112Jul23P.jpg
July 23, 2112
(Saros 157)		 Saros158 04van70 SE2123Jun23P.jpg
June 23, 2123
(Saros 158)
Saros159 01van70 SE2134May23P.jpg
May 23, 2134
(Saros 159)

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
SE1818May05A.png
May 5, 1818
(Saros 135)		 SE1847Apr15T.png
April 15, 1847
(Saros 136)		 SE1876Mar25A.png
March 25, 1876
(Saros 137)
SE1905Mar06A.png
March 6, 1905
(Saros 138)		 SE1934Feb14T.png
February 14, 1934
(Saros 139)		 SE1963Jan25A.png
January 25, 1963
(Saros 140)
SE1992Jan04A.png
January 4, 1992
(Saros 141)		 SE2020Dec14T.png
December 14, 2020
(Saros 142)		 SE2049Nov25H.png
November 25, 2049
(Saros 143)
SE2078Nov04A.png
November 4, 2078
(Saros 144)		 SE2107Oct16T.png
October 16, 2107
(Saros 145)		 SE2136Sep26T.png
September 26, 2136
(Saros 146)
Saros147 31van80 SE2165Sep05A.jpg
September 5, 2165
(Saros 147)		 Saros148 31van75 SE2194Aug16T.jpg
August 16, 2194
(Saros 148)

Notes

  1. ↑ "March 6, 1905 Annular Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Page 4". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia. 1905-03-06. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-27– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Eclipse of the sun". The Leader. Orange, New South Wales, Australia. 1905-03-06. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-27– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  5. ↑ "Total Solar Eclipse of 1905 Mar 06". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 30 July 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 138". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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