Solar eclipse of September 9, 1904
| Solar eclipse of September 9, 1904 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Total |
| Gamma | -0.1625 |
| Magnitude | 1.0709 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 380 sec (6 m 20 s) |
| Coordinates | 3°42′S 134°30′W / 3.7°S 134.5°W |
| Max. width of band | 234 km (145 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 20:44:21 |
| References | |
| Saros | 133 (39 of 72) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9291 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on September 9, 1904. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1902-1907
Each member 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.
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 | April 8, 1902 Partial |
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 133
Solar Saros 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435, through January 13, 1526, with a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544. It has total eclipses from February 3, 1562, through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850.[1] The total eclipses of this saros series are getting shorter and farther south with each iteration.
| Series members 30-49 occur between 1742 and 2100 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 31 | 32 |
| June 3, 1742 | June 13, 1760 |  June 24, 1778 |
| 33 | 34 | 35 |
| July 4, 1796 | July 17, 1814 | July 27, 1832 |
| 36 | 37 | 38 |
| August 7, 1850 |  August 18, 1868 |
 August 29, 1886 |
| 39 | 40 | 41 |
September 9, 1904 |
 September 21, 1922 |
 October 1, 1940 |
| 42 | 43 | 44 |
 October 12, 1958 |
 October 23, 1976 |
 November 3, 1994 |
| 45 | 46 | 47 |
 November 13, 2012 |
 November 25, 2030 |
 December 5, 2048 |
| 48 | 49 | 50 |
 December 17, 2066 |
 December 27, 2084 |
January 8, 2103 |
Inex series
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: | ||
|---|---|---|
September 9, 1904 (Saros 133) |
 August 21, 1933 (Saros 134) |
 July 31, 1962 (Saros 135) |
 July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) |
 June 21, 2020 (Saros 137) |
 May 31, 2049 (Saros 138) |
 May 11, 2078 (Saros 139) |
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Notes
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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