Solar eclipse of November 11, 1901

An annular solar eclipse occurred on November 11, 1901.[1][2] 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. Annularity was visible from the Italian island Sicily, the whole British Malta (now Malta), Ottoman Tripolitania (now Libya), Egypt, Ottoman Empire (parts now belonging to Cretan State in Greece, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia), Emirate of Jabal Shammar (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), Aden Protectorate (now belonging to Yemen), Muscat and Oman (now Oman), British Raj (the parts now belonging to India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Myanmar), British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Siam (name changed to Thailand later), French Indochina (the parts now belonging to Cambodia, southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including Phnom Penh), Bombay Reef in the Paracel Islands, and Philippines.

Solar eclipse of November 11, 1901
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.4758
Magnitude0.9216
Maximum eclipse
Duration661 s (11 min 1 s)
Coordinates10°48′N 68°54′E / 10.8°N 68.9°E / 10.8; 68.9
Max. width of band336 km (209 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse7:28:21
References
Saros141 (17 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9284

Related eclipses edit

Solar eclipses 1901–1902 edit

This eclipse is a member of the 1898–1902 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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1898 to 1902
Ascending node   Descending node
111 December 13, 1898
 
Partial
116 June 8, 1899
 
Partial
121 December 3, 1899
 
Annular
126 May 28, 1900
 
Total
131 November 22, 1900
 
Annular
136 May 18, 1901
 
Total
141 November 11, 1901
 
Annular
146 May 7, 1902
 
Partial
151 October 31, 1902
 
Partial

Saros 141 edit

Solar saros 141, repeating every about 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, contains 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains 41 annular eclipses from August 4, 1739, to October 14, 2460. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. The longest annular eclipse occurred on December 14, 1955, with maximum duration of annularity at 12 minutes and 9 seconds. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node.[3]

Series members 17–36 occur between 1901 and 2259
17 18 19
 
November 11, 1901
 
November 22, 1919
 
December 2, 1937
20 21 22
 
December 14, 1955
 
December 24, 1973
 
January 4, 1992
23 24 25
 
January 15, 2010
 
January 26, 2028
 
February 5, 2046
26 27 28
 
February 17, 2064
 
February 27, 2082
 
March 10, 2100
29 30 31
 
March 22, 2118
 
April 1, 2136
 
April 12, 2154
32 33 34
 
April 23, 2172
 
May 4, 2190
 
May 15, 2208
35 36
 
May 27, 2226
 
June 6, 2244

Inex series edit

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.

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Chinese rescue sun in eclipse". The Atlanta Journal. Atlanta, Georgia. 1901-11-11. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Orb of day "rescued"". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. 1901-11-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.

References edit