Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013

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Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013
2013 Solar Eclipse Libreville.JPG
Partial from Libreville, Gabon
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureHybrid
Gamma 0.3272
Magnitude 1.0159
Maximum eclipse
Duration100 sec (1 m 40 s)
Coordinates 3°30′N11°42′W / 3.5°N 11.7°W / 3.5; -11.7
Max. width of band58 km (36 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin10:04:34
(U1) Total begin11:05:17
Greatest eclipse12:47:36
(U4) Total end14:27:42
(P4) Partial end15:28:21
References
Saros 143 (23 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9538

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node on 3 November 2013. It was a hybrid eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.0159, with a small portion over the western Atlantic Ocean at sunrise as an annular eclipse, and the rest of the path as a narrow total solar eclipse. 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 hybrid solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's in sunrise and sunset, but at Greatest Eclipse the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's.

Contents

In this particular case the eclipse path starts out as annular and ends as total.

It was the 23rd eclipse of the 143rd Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on March 7, 1617, and will conclude with a partial eclipse on April 23, 2897.

Viewing

Totality was visible from the northern Atlantic Ocean (east of Florida) to Africa (Gabon (landfall), R. Congo, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia), with a maximum duration of totality of 1 minute and 39 seconds, visible from the Atlantic Ocean south of Ivory Coast and Ghana. [1]

Places with partial darkening were the Eastern coast of North America, southern Greenland, Bermuda, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, Northern South America, almost all the African continent, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece, Malta, Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey and the Middle East.

This solar eclipse happened simultaneously with the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and it was possible to observe a partial solar eclipse in Abu Dhabi before the sunset while the F1 race took place, as shown briefly during its broadcast. [2]

From space

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Simulated shadow path

Eclipses of 2013

Solar eclipses 2011–2014

This eclipse is a member of the 2011–2014 solar eclipse 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. [3] [Note 1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011–2014
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
118
Partial solar eclipse Tromso 2011-05-31 (cropped).jpg
Partial from Tromsø, Norway
2011 June 01
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Partial (north)
1.21300123 2011 November 25
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Partial (south)
−1.05359
128
Annular Eclipse. Taken from Middlegate, Nevada on May 20, 2012.jpg
Middlegate, Nevada
2012 May 20
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Annular
0.48279133
Total Solar Eclipse in Cairns, Australia (23689065446).jpg
Cairns, Australia
2012 November 13
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Total
−0.37189
138
Annular Solar Eclipse May 10 2013 Northern Territory Australia.JPG
Churchills Head, Australia
2013 May 10
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Annular
−0.26937143
2013 Solar Eclipse Libreville.JPG
Partial from Libreville, Gabon
2013 November 03
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Hybrid
0.32715
148
Partial Solar Eclipse April 29th 2014 (13898733668) cropped.jpg
Partial from Adelaide, Australia
2014 April 29
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Annular (non-central)
−0.99996153
Partial solar eclipse Oct 23 2014 Minneapolis 5-36pm Ruen1.png
Partial from Minneapolis
2014 October 23
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Partial (north)
1.09078

Saros 143

It is a part of Saros cycle 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617 and total event from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995. It has hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067, and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2873. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.

Series members 17–28 occur between 1741 and 2100
8910
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May 23, 1743
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June 3, 1761
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June 14, 1779
111213
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June 24, 1797
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July 6, 1815
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July 17, 1833
141516
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July 28, 1851
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August 7, 1869
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August 19, 1887
171819
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August 30, 1905
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September 10, 1923
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September 21, 1941
202122
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October 2, 1959
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October 12, 1977
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October 24, 1995
232425
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November 3, 2013
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November 14, 2031
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November 25, 2049
262728
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December 6, 2067
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December 16, 2085

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.

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 ascending node.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between June 10, 1964, and August 21, 2036
June 10–11March 27–29January 15–16November 3August 21–22
117119121123125
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June 10, 1964
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March 28, 1968
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January 16, 1972
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November 3, 1975
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August 22, 1979
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June 11, 1983
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March 29, 1987
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January 15, 1991
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November 3, 1994
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August 22, 1998
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June 10, 2002
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March 29, 2006
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January 15, 2010
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November 3, 2013
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August 21, 2017
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June 10, 2021
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March 29, 2025
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January 14, 2029
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November 3, 2032
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August 21, 2036

Notes

  1. The partial solar eclipses of January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occurred in the previous semester series.

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