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Solar eclipse of July 9, 1926

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Solar eclipse of July 9, 1926
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.0538
Magnitude0.968
Maximum eclipse
Duration231 s (3 min 51 s)
Coordinates25°36′N 165°06′W / 25.6°N 165.1°W / 25.6; -165.1
Max. width of band115 km (71 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse23:06:02
References
Saros135 (34 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9342

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Friday, July 9 and Saturday, July 10, 1926,[1] with a magnitude of 0.968. 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. Occurring about 4.3 days before apogee (on July 14, 1926, at 5:50 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.[2]

Annularity was visible from the islands of Pulo Anna and Merir in Japan's South Seas Mandate (now in Palau) and Wake Island on July 10 (Saturday), and Midway Atoll on July 9 (Friday). A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Northeast Asia, northern Oceania, Hawaii, southern North America, and Central 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.[3]

July 9, 1926 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 1926 July 09 at 20:05:21.4 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 1926 July 09 at 21:08:43.5 UTC
First Central Line 1926 July 09 at 21:10:16.8 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 1926 July 09 at 21:11:50.1 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact 1926 July 09 at 22:15:23.2 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 1926 July 09 at 23:05:52.4 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 1926 July 09 at 23:06:02.0 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 1926 July 09 at 23:06:39.5 UTC
Greatest Duration 1926 July 09 at 23:08:37.8 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact 1926 July 09 at 23:56:40.1 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 1926 July 10 at 01:00:12.3 UTC
Last Central Line 1926 July 10 at 01:01:48.0 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 1926 July 10 at 01:03:23.6 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 1926 July 10 at 02:06:47.9 UTC
July 9, 1926 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.96799
Eclipse Obscuration 0.93701
Gamma 0.05379
Sun Right Ascension 07h13m29.8s
Sun Declination +22°22'23.4"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'43.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.6"
Moon Right Ascension 07h13m30.1s
Moon Declination +22°25'20.5"
Moon Semi-Diameter 14'59.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°55'02.2"
ΔT 24.2 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 June–July 1926
June 25
Descending node (full moon)
July 9
Ascending node (new moon)
July 25
Descending node (full moon)
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 109
Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 135
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 147
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Eclipses in 1926

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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 135

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Inex

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Triad

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Solar eclipses of 1924–1928

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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.[4]

The partial solar eclipses on March 5, 1924 and August 30, 1924 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the solar eclipses on May 19, 1928 and November 12, 1928 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1924 to 1928
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
115 July 31, 1924

Partial
−1.4459 120 January 24, 1925

Total
0.8661
125 July 20, 1925

Annular
−0.7193 130

Totality in Sumatra, Indonesia
January 14, 1926

Total
0.1973
135 July 9, 1926

Annular
0.0538 140 January 3, 1927

Annular
−0.4956
145 June 29, 1927

Total
0.8163 150 December 24, 1927

Partial
−1.2416
155 June 17, 1928

Partial
1.5107

Saros 135

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511 through February 24, 2305; hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323 and March 18, 2341; and total eclipses from March 29, 2359 through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. 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 annularity was produced by member 16 at 10 minutes, 41 seconds on December 24, 1601, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 62 at 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[5]

Series members 28–49 occur between 1801 and 2200:
28 29 30

May 5, 1818

May 15, 1836

May 26, 1854
31 32 33

June 6, 1872

June 17, 1890

June 28, 1908
34 35 36

July 9, 1926

July 20, 1944

July 31, 1962
37 38 39

August 10, 1980

August 22, 1998

September 1, 2016
40 42 42

September 12, 2034

September 22, 2052

October 4, 2070
43 44 45

October 14, 2088

October 26, 2106

November 6, 2124
46 47 48

November 17, 2142

November 27, 2160

December 9, 2178
49

December 19, 2196

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.

22 eclipse events between December 2, 1880 and July 9, 1964
December 2–3 September 20–21 July 9–10 April 26–28 February 13–14
111 113 115 117 119

December 2, 1880

July 9, 1888

April 26, 1892

February 13, 1896
121 123 125 127 129

December 3, 1899

September 21, 1903

July 10, 1907

April 28, 1911

February 14, 1915
131 133 135 137 139

December 3, 1918

September 21, 1922

July 9, 1926

April 28, 1930

February 14, 1934
141 143 145 147 149

December 2, 1937

September 21, 1941

July 9, 1945

April 28, 1949

February 14, 1953
151 153 155

December 2, 1956

September 20, 1960

July 9, 1964

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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

June 16, 1806
(Saros 124)

May 16, 1817
(Saros 125)

April 14, 1828
(Saros 126)

March 15, 1839
(Saros 127)

February 12, 1850
(Saros 128)

January 11, 1861
(Saros 129)

December 12, 1871
(Saros 130)

November 10, 1882
(Saros 131)

October 9, 1893
(Saros 132)

September 9, 1904
(Saros 133)

August 10, 1915
(Saros 134)

July 9, 1926
(Saros 135)

June 8, 1937
(Saros 136)

May 9, 1948
(Saros 137)

April 8, 1959
(Saros 138)

March 7, 1970
(Saros 139)

February 4, 1981
(Saros 140)

January 4, 1992
(Saros 141)

December 4, 2002
(Saros 142)

November 3, 2013
(Saros 143)

October 2, 2024
(Saros 144)

September 2, 2035
(Saros 145)

August 2, 2046
(Saros 146)

July 1, 2057
(Saros 147)

May 31, 2068
(Saros 148)

May 1, 2079
(Saros 149)

March 31, 2090
(Saros 150)

February 28, 2101
(Saros 151)

January 29, 2112
(Saros 152)

December 28, 2122
(Saros 153)

November 26, 2133
(Saros 154)

October 26, 2144
(Saros 155)

September 26, 2155
(Saros 156)

August 25, 2166
(Saros 157)

July 25, 2177
(Saros 158)

June 24, 2188
(Saros 159)

May 24, 2199
(Saros 160)

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

September 28, 1810
(Saros 131)

September 7, 1839
(Saros 132)

August 18, 1868
(Saros 133)

July 29, 1897
(Saros 134)

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)

February 18, 2129
(Saros 142)

January 30, 2158
(Saros 143)

January 9, 2187
(Saros 144)

Notes

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  1. ^ "July 9–10, 1926 Annular Solar Eclipse". timeanddate. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Annular Solar Eclipse of 1926 Jul 09". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 135". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

References

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