An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Sunday, March 29, 1903,[1][2] with a magnitude of 0.9767. 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 China (now northwestern China, Mongolia and northeastern China), Russia on March 29 (Sunday), and Northern Canada on March 28 (Saturday).
Solar eclipse of March 29, 1903 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.8413 |
Magnitude | 0.9767 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 113 s (1 min 53 s) |
Coordinates | 56°12′N 130°18′E / 56.2°N 130.3°E |
Max. width of band | 153 km (95 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 1:35:23 |
References | |
Saros | 118 (62 of 72) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9288 |
Related eclipses
editEclipses in 1903
edit- An annular solar eclipse on March 29, 1903.
- A partial lunar eclipse on April 12, 1903.
- A total solar eclipse on September 21, 1903.
- A partial lunar eclipse on October 6, 1903.
Metonic
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 8, 1899
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 14, 1907
Tzolkinex
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 13, 1896
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 9, 1910
Half-Saros
edit- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 21, 1894
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 1, 1912
Tritos
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 26, 1892
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 25, 1914
Solar Saros 118
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 16, 1885
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 8, 1921
Inex
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 16, 1874
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 7, 1932
Triad
edit- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 27, 1816
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 26, 1990
Solar eclipses of 1902–1907
editThis 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.[3]
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 |
Saros 118
editIt is a part of Saros cycle 118, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 24, 803 AD. It contains total eclipses from August 19, 947 AD through October 25, 1650, hybrid eclipses on November 4, 1668, and November 15, 1686, and annular eclipses from November 27, 1704, through April 30, 1957. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on July 15, 2083. The longest duration of total was 6 minutes, 59 seconds on May 16, 1398.
Series members 62–72 occur between 1901 and 2083: | ||
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62 | 63 | 64 |
March 29, 1903 |
April 8, 1921 |
April 19, 1939 |
65 | 66 | 67 |
April 30, 1957 |
May 11, 1975 |
May 21, 1993 |
68 | 69 | 70 |
June 1, 2011 |
June 12, 2029 |
June 23, 2047 |
71 | 72 | |
July 3, 2065 |
July 15, 2083 |
Tritos series
editThis 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 1901 and 2100 | |||
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March 29, 1903 (Saros 118) |
February 25, 1914 (Saros 119) |
January 24, 1925 (Saros 120) | |
December 25, 1935 (Saros 121) |
November 23, 1946 (Saros 122) |
October 23, 1957 (Saros 123) | |
September 22, 1968 (Saros 124) |
August 22, 1979 (Saros 125) |
July 22, 1990 (Saros 126) | |
June 21, 2001 (Saros 127) |
May 20, 2012 (Saros 128) |
April 20, 2023 (Saros 129) | |
March 20, 2034 (Saros 130) |
February 16, 2045 (Saros 131) |
January 16, 2056 (Saros 132) | |
December 17, 2066 (Saros 133) |
November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) |
October 14, 2088 (Saros 135) | |
September 14, 2099 (Saros 136) |
Notes
edit- ^ "Eclipse of the sun yesterday". Daily Leader. Davenport, Iowa. 1903-03-29. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Annular Solar Eclipse". The Washington Times. Washington, District of Columbia. 1903-03-29. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
References
edit- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC