Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.2694 |
Magnitude | 0.9544 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 363 s (6 min 3 s) |
Coordinates | 2°12′N 175°30′E / 2.2°N 175.5°E |
Max. width of band | 173 km (107 mi) |
Times ( UTC) | |
(P1) Partial begin | 21:25:10 |
(U1) Total begin | 22:30:34 |
Greatest eclipse | 0:26:20 |
(U4) Total end | 2:19:58 |
(P4) Partial end | 3:25:23 |
References | |
Saros | 138 (31 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9537 |
An annular solar eclipse took place at the Moon's descending node of the orbit on May 9–10 (UTC), 2013, [1] [2] 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.
It was the 31st eclipse of the 138th Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on June 6, 1472 and will conclude with a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716.
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.
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]
Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
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Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
118 Partial from Tromsø, Norway |
2011 June 01 Partial (north) |
1.21300 | 123 Hinode XRT footage |
2011 November 25 Partial (south) |
−1.05359 | |
128 Middlegate, Nevada |
2012 May 20 Annular |
0.48279 | 133 Cairns, Australia |
2012 November 13 Total |
−0.37189 | |
138 Churchills Head, Australia |
2013 May 10 Annular |
−0.26937 | 143 Partial from Libreville, Gabon |
2013 November 03 Hybrid |
0.32715 | |
148 Partial from Adelaide, Australia |
2014 April 29 Annular (non-central) |
−0.99996 | 153 Partial from Minneapolis |
2014 October 23 Partial (north) |
1.09078 |
It is a part of Saros cycle 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482 with a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500. It has total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. The longest duration of totality will be only 56 seconds on April 3, 2554.
Series members 25–35 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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25 | 26 | 27 |
March 6, 1905 |
March 17, 1923 |
March 27, 1941 |
28 | 29 | 30 |
April 8, 1959 |
April 18, 1977 |
April 29, 1995 |
31 | 32 | 33 |
May 10, 2013 |
May 21, 2031 |
May 31, 2049 |
34 | 35 | |
June 11, 2067 |
June 22, 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.
Inex series members between 1901 and 2100: | ||
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July 9, 1926 (Saros 135) |
June 20, 1955 (Saros 136) |
May 30, 1984 (Saros 137) |
May 10, 2013 (Saros 138) |
April 20, 2042 (Saros 139) |
March 31, 2071 (Saros 140) |
March 10, 2100 (Saros 141) |
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 2100 | |||
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December 21, 1805 (Saros 119) |
November 19, 1816 (Saros 120) |
October 20, 1827 (Saros 121) | |
September 18, 1838 (Saros 122) |
August 18, 1849 (Saros 123) |
July 18, 1860 (Saros 124) | |
June 18, 1871 (Saros 125) |
May 17, 1882 (Saros 126) |
April 16, 1893 (Saros 127) | |
March 17, 1904 (Saros 128) |
February 14, 1915 (Saros 129) |
January 14, 1926 (Saros 130) | |
December 13, 1936 (Saros 131) |
November 12, 1947 (Saros 132) |
October 12, 1958 (Saros 133) | |
September 11, 1969 (Saros 134) |
August 10, 1980 (Saros 135) |
July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) | |
June 10, 2002 (Saros 137) |
May 10, 2013 (Saros 138) |
April 8, 2024 (Saros 139) | |
March 9, 2035 (Saros 140) |
February 5, 2046 (Saros 141) |
January 5, 2057 (Saros 142) | |
December 6, 2067 (Saros 143) |
November 4, 2078 (Saros 144) |
October 4, 2089 (Saros 145) | |
September 4, 2100 (Saros 146) |
In the 22nd century:
In the 23rd century:
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 events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047 | ||||
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July 21–22 | May 9–11 | February 26–27 | December 14–15 | October 2–3 |
116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
July 22, 1971 |
May 11, 1975 |
February 26, 1979 |
December 15, 1982 |
October 3, 1986 |
126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
July 22, 1990 |
May 10, 1994 |
February 26, 1998 |
December 14, 2001 |
October 3, 2005 |
136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
July 22, 2009 |
May 10, 2013 |
February 26, 2017 |
December 14, 2020 |
October 2, 2024 |
146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
July 22, 2028 |
May 9, 2032 |
February 27, 2036 |
December 15, 2039 |
October 3, 2043 |
156 | ||||
July 22, 2047 |