Solar eclipse of August 30, 1905 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | 0.5708 |
Magnitude | 1.0477 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 226 s (3 min 46 s) |
Coordinates | 42°30′N 4°18′W / 42.5°N 4.3°W |
Max. width of band | 192 km (119 mi) |
Times ( UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 13:07:26 |
References | |
Saros | 143 (17 of 72) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9293 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on August 30, 1905. [1] [2] [3] 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. Totality was visible from Canada, Newfoundland Colony (now belonging to Canada), Spain, French Algeria (now Algeria), French Tunisia (now Tunisia), Ottoman Tripolitania (now Libya) include the capital Tripoli, Egypt, Ottoman Empire (the parts now belonging to Saudi Arabia) including Mecca, Emirate of Jabal Shammar (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), Aden Protectorate (now belonging to Yemen), and Muscat and Oman (now Oman).
This eclipse was observed from Alcalà de Xivert in Spain. [4] It was also observed by members of the British Astronomical Association from various locations. [5] [6]
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 1902 to 1907 | ||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||
108 |
April 8, 1902 Partial |
113 | October 1, 1902 | |
118 |
March 29, 1903 Annular |
123 |
September 21, 1903 Total | |
128 |
March 17, 1904 Annular |
133 |
September 9, 1904 Total | |
138 |
March 6, 1905 Annular |
143 |
August 30, 1905 Total | |
148 |
February 23, 1906 Partial |
153 |
August 20, 1906 Partial |
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 | ||
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8 | 9 | 10 |
May 23, 1743 |
June 3, 1761 |
June 14, 1779 |
11 | 12 | 13 |
June 24, 1797 |
July 6, 1815 |
July 17, 1833 |
14 | 15 | 16 |
July 28, 1851 |
August 7, 1869 |
August 19, 1887 |
17 | 18 | 19 |
August 30, 1905 |
September 10, 1923 |
September 21, 1941 |
20 | 21 | 22 |
October 2, 1959 |
October 12, 1977 |
October 24, 1995 |
23 | 24 | 25 |
November 3, 2013 |
November 14, 2031 |
November 25, 2049 |
26 | 27 | 28 |
December 6, 2067 |
December 16, 2085 |
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. In the 19th century:
Inex series members between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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August 30, 1905 (Saros 143) |
August 10, 1934 (Saros 144) |
July 20, 1963 (Saros 145) |
June 30, 1992 (Saros 146) |
June 10, 2021 (Saros 147) |
May 20, 2050 (Saros 148) |
May 1, 2079 (Saros 139) |
In the 22nd century: