Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013

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Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013
Annular Solar Eclipse May 10 2013 Northern Territory Australia.JPG
Annularity viewed from Churchills Head, Australia.
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma −0.2694
Magnitude 0.9544
Maximum eclipse
Duration363 s (6 min 3 s)
Coordinates 2°12′N175°30′E / 2.2°N 175.5°E / 2.2; 175.5
Max. width of band173 km (107 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin21:25:10
(U1) Total begin22:30:34
Greatest eclipse0:26:20
(U4) Total end2:19:58
(P4) Partial end3:25:23
References
Saros 138 (31 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9537

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10, 2013, [1] [2] [3] with a magnitude of 0.9544. 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 3.6 days before apogee (on May 13, 2013, at 14:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller. [4]

Contents

Annularity was visible from parts of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia, the Louisiade Archipelago (belonging to Papua New Guinea), the Solomon Islands, and Kiribati. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Hawaii.

Visibility

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Animation of eclipse path

Annularity was visible from a 171 to 225 kilometre-wide track that traversed Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Gilbert Islands, with the maximum of 6 minutes 3 seconds visible from the Pacific Ocean east of French Polynesia.

Images

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]

May 10, 2013 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact2013 May 09 at 21:26:16.9 UTC
First Umbral External Contact2013 May 09 at 22:31:41.4 UTC
First Central Line2013 May 09 at 22:33:47.5 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact2013 May 09 at 22:35:53.8 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact2013 May 09 at 23:46:27.1 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction2013 May 10 at 00:20:48.1 UTC
Greatest Eclipse2013 May 10 at 00:26:20.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction2013 May 10 at 00:29:30.5 UTC
Greatest Duration2013 May 10 at 00:36:27.6 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact2013 May 10 at 01:06:21.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact2013 May 10 at 02:16:49.4 UTC
Last Central Line2013 May 10 at 02:18:57.6 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact2013 May 10 at 02:21:05.6 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact2013 May 10 at 03:26:30.5 UTC
May 10, 2013 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.95443
Eclipse Obscuration0.91093
Gamma−0.26937
Sun Right Ascension03h08m17.4s
Sun Declination+17°36'34.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'50.4"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension03h08m28.1s
Moon Declination+17°22'06.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'53.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'40.4"
ΔT67.0 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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of April–May 2013
April 25
Ascending node (full moon)
 May 10
Descending node (new moon)
 May 25
Ascending node (full moon)
Lunar eclipse chart close-2013Apr25.png SE2013May10A.png Lunar eclipse chart close-2013May25.png
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 112		 Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 138		 Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 150

Eclipses in 2013

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 138

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. [6]

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
SE2011Nov25P.png
Partial		−1.05359
128
Solar Eclipse May 20,2012.jpg
Annularity in Red Bluff, CA, USA 		May 20, 2012
SE2012May20A.png
Annular		0.48279133
Solar eclipse of 2012 november 14 near Mt Carbine.jpg
Totality in Mount Carbine, Queensland, Australia 		November 13, 2012
SE2012Nov13T.png
Total		−0.37189
138
Annular Solar Eclipse May 10 2013 Northern Territory Australia.JPG
Annularity in Churchills Head, Australia 		May 10, 2013
SE2013May10A.png
Annular		−0.26937143
2013 Solar Eclipse Libreville.JPG
Partial in Libreville, Gabon 		November 3, 2013
SE2013Nov03H.png
Hybrid		0.32715
148
Partial Solar Eclipse April 29th 2014 (13898733668).jpg
Partial in Adelaide, Australia 		April 29, 2014
SE2014Apr29A.png
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

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
SE1815Jan10A.png
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.

21 eclipse events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 22May 9–11February 26–27December 14–15October 2–3
116118120122124
SE1971Jul22P.png
July 22, 1971 		SE1975May11P.png
May 11, 1975 		SE1979Feb26T.png
February 26, 1979 		SE1982Dec15P.png
December 15, 1982 		SE1986Oct03H.png
October 3, 1986
126128130132134
SE1990Jul22T.png
July 22, 1990 		SE1994May10A.png
May 10, 1994 		SE1998Feb26T.png
February 26, 1998 		SE2001Dec14A.png
December 14, 2001 		SE2005Oct03A.png
October 3, 2005
136138140142144
SE2009Jul22T.png
July 22, 2009 		SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013 		SE2017Feb26A.png
February 26, 2017 		SE2020Dec14T.png
December 14, 2020 		SE2024Oct02A.png
October 2, 2024
146148150152154
SE2028Jul22T.png
July 22, 2028 		SE2032May09A.png
May 9, 2032 		SE2036Feb27P.png
February 27, 2036 		SE2039Dec15T.png
December 15, 2039 		SE2043Oct03A.png
October 3, 2043
156
SE2047Jul22P.png
July 22, 2047

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
SE1805Dec21A.gif
December 21, 1805
(Saros 119)		 SE1816Nov19T.gif
November 19, 1816
(Saros 120)		 SE1827Oct20H.gif
October 20, 1827
(Saros 121)		 SE1838Sep18A.gif
September 18, 1838
(Saros 122)		 SE1849Aug18T.gif
August 18, 1849
(Saros 123)
SE1860Jul18T.gif
July 18, 1860
(Saros 124)		 SE1871Jun18A.gif
June 18, 1871
(Saros 125)		 SE1882May17T.png
May 17, 1882
(Saros 126)		 SE1893Apr16T.png
April 16, 1893
(Saros 127)		 SE1904Mar17A.png
March 17, 1904
(Saros 128)
SE1915Feb14A.png
February 14, 1915
(Saros 129)		 SE1926Jan14T.png
January 14, 1926
(Saros 130)		 SE1936Dec13A.png
December 13, 1936
(Saros 131)		 SE1947Nov12A.png
November 12, 1947
(Saros 132)		 SE1958Oct12T.png
October 12, 1958
(Saros 133)
SE1969Sep11A.png
September 11, 1969
(Saros 134)		 SE1980Aug10A.png
August 10, 1980
(Saros 135)		 SE1991Jul11T.png
July 11, 1991
(Saros 136)		 SE2002Jun10A.png
June 10, 2002
(Saros 137)		 SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013
(Saros 138)
SE2024Apr08T.png
April 8, 2024
(Saros 139)		 SE2035Mar09A.png
March 9, 2035
(Saros 140)		 SE2046Feb05A.png
February 5, 2046
(Saros 141)		 SE2057Jan05T.png
January 5, 2057
(Saros 142)		 SE2067Dec06H.png
December 6, 2067
(Saros 143)
SE2078Nov04A.png
November 4, 2078
(Saros 144)		 SE2089Oct04T.png
October 4, 2089
(Saros 145)		 SE2100Sep04T.png
September 4, 2100
(Saros 146)		 SE2111Aug04A.png
August 4, 2111
(Saros 147)		 Saros148 27van75 SE2122Jul04T.jpg
July 4, 2122
(Saros 148)
SE2133Jun03T.png
June 3, 2133
(Saros 149)		 Saros150 24van71 SE2144May03A.jpg
May 3, 2144
(Saros 150)		 SE2155Apr02A.png
April 2, 2155
(Saros 151)		 Saros152 21van70 SE2166Mar02T.jpg
March 2, 2166
(Saros 152)		 Saros153 18van70 SE2177Jan29A.jpg
January 29, 2177
(Saros 153)
Saros154 16van71 SE2187Dec29A.jpg
December 29, 2187
(Saros 154)		 SE2198Nov28T.png
November 28, 2198
(Saros 155)

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
SE1810Sep28A.gif
September 28, 1810
(Saros 131)		 SE1839Sep07A.png
September 7, 1839
(Saros 132)		 SE1868Aug18T.png
August 18, 1868
(Saros 133)
SE1897Jul29A.gif
July 29, 1897
(Saros 134)		 SE1926Jul09A.png
July 9, 1926
(Saros 135)		 SE1955Jun20T.png
June 20, 1955
(Saros 136)
SE1984May30A.png
May 30, 1984
(Saros 137)		 SE2013May10A.png
May 10, 2013
(Saros 138)		 SE2042Apr20T.png
April 20, 2042
(Saros 139)
SE2071Mar31A.png
March 31, 2071
(Saros 140)		 SE2100Mar10A.png
March 10, 2100
(Saros 141)		 SE2129Feb18T.png
February 18, 2129
(Saros 142)
SE2158Jan30A.png
January 30, 2158
(Saros 143)		 SE2187Jan09A.png
January 9, 2187
(Saros 144)

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