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Solar eclipse of February 3, 1935

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Solar eclipse of February 3, 1935
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma1.1438
Magnitude0.739
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates62°30′N 115°24′W / 62.5°N 115.4°W / 62.5; -115.4
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse16:16:20
References
Saros149 (16 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9362

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, February 3, 1935,[1] with a magnitude of 0.739. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

This was the second of five solar eclipses in 1935, with the others occurring on January 5, June 30, July 30, and December 25. The next time this will occur is 2206.

A partial eclipse was visible for most of North America.

Eclipse details

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Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[2]

February 3, 1935 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 1935 February 03 at 14:30:31.4 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 1935 February 03 at 16:16:20.2 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 1935 February 03 at 16:27:42.1 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 1935 February 03 at 17:04:33.7 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 1935 February 03 at 18:01:48.2 UTC
February 3, 1935 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.73901
Eclipse Obscuration 0.67784
Gamma 1.14380
Sun Right Ascension 21h05m33.3s
Sun Declination -16°39'23.6"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'13.5"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9"
Moon Right Ascension 21h03m43.1s
Moon Declination -15°34'30.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter 16'44.0"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'24.9"
ΔT 23.9 s

Eclipse season

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This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of January–February 1935
January 5
Ascending node (new moon)
January 19
Descending node (full moon)
February 3
Ascending node (new moon)
Partial solar eclipse
Solar Saros 111
Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 123
Partial solar eclipse
Solar Saros 149
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Eclipses in 1935

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Metonic

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Tzolkinex

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Half-Saros

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Tritos

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Solar Saros 149

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Inex

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Triad

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Solar eclipses of 1931–1935

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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.[3]

The partial solar eclipses on April 18, 1931 and October 11, 1931 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the solar eclipses on January 5, 1935 (partial), June 30, 1935 (partial), and December 25, 1935 (annular) occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1931 to 1935
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
114 September 12, 1931

Partial
1.506 119 March 7, 1932

Annular
−0.9673
124 August 31, 1932

Total
0.8307 129 February 24, 1933

Annular
−0.2191
134 August 21, 1933

Annular
0.0869 139 February 14, 1934

Total
0.4868
144 August 10, 1934

Annular
−0.689 149 February 3, 1935

Partial
1.1438
154 July 30, 1935

Partial
−1.4259

Saros 149

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 149, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 21, 1664. It contains total eclipses from April 9, 2043 through October 2, 2331; hybrid eclipses from October 13, 2349 through November 3, 2385; and annular eclipses from November 15, 2403 through July 13, 2800. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 28, 2926. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 31 at 4 minutes, 10 seconds on July 17, 2205, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 62 at 5 minutes, 6 seconds on June 21, 2764. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[4]

Series members 9–30 occur between 1801 and 2200:
9 10 11

November 18, 1808

November 29, 1826

December 9, 1844
12 13 14

December 21, 1862

December 31, 1880

January 11, 1899
15 16 17

January 23, 1917

February 3, 1935

February 14, 1953
18 19 20

February 25, 1971

March 7, 1989

March 19, 2007
21 22 23

March 29, 2025

April 9, 2043

April 20, 2061
24 25 26

May 1, 2079

May 11, 2097

May 24, 2115
27 28 29

June 3, 2133

June 14, 2151

June 25, 2169
30

July 6, 2187

Metonic series

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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.

23 eclipse events between February 3, 1859 and June 29, 1946
February 1–3 November 21–22 September 8–10 June 28–29 April 16–18
109 111 113 115 117

February 3, 1859

November 21, 1862

June 28, 1870

April 16, 1874
119 121 123 125 127

February 2, 1878

November 21, 1881

September 8, 1885

June 28, 1889

April 16, 1893
129 131 133 135 137

February 1, 1897

November 22, 1900

September 9, 1904

June 28, 1908

April 17, 1912
139 141 143 145 147

February 3, 1916

November 22, 1919

September 10, 1923

June 29, 1927

April 18, 1931
149 151 153 155

February 3, 1935

November 21, 1938

September 10, 1942

June 29, 1946

Tritos series

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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.

The partial solar eclipse on October 24, 2098 (part of Saros 164) is also a part of this series but is not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2011

February 11, 1804
(Saros 137)

January 10, 1815
(Saros 138)

December 9, 1825
(Saros 139)

November 9, 1836
(Saros 140)

October 9, 1847
(Saros 141)

September 7, 1858
(Saros 142)

August 7, 1869
(Saros 143)

July 7, 1880
(Saros 144)

June 6, 1891
(Saros 145)

May 7, 1902
(Saros 146)

April 6, 1913
(Saros 147)

March 5, 1924
(Saros 148)

February 3, 1935
(Saros 149)

January 3, 1946
(Saros 150)

December 2, 1956
(Saros 151)

November 2, 1967
(Saros 152)

October 2, 1978
(Saros 153)

August 31, 1989
(Saros 154)

July 31, 2000
(Saros 155)

July 1, 2011
(Saros 156)

Inex series

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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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

April 24, 1819
(Saros 145)

April 3, 1848
(Saros 146)

March 15, 1877
(Saros 147)

February 23, 1906
(Saros 148)

February 3, 1935
(Saros 149)

January 14, 1964
(Saros 150)

December 24, 1992
(Saros 151)

December 4, 2021
(Saros 152)

November 14, 2050
(Saros 153)

October 24, 2079
(Saros 154)

October 5, 2108
(Saros 155)

September 15, 2137
(Saros 156)

August 25, 2166
(Saros 157)

August 5, 2195
(Saros 158)

References

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  1. ^ "February 3, 1935 Partial Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Partial Solar Eclipse of 1935 Feb 03". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 149". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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