| Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Hybrid |
| Gamma | -0.3473 |
| Magnitude | 1.0074 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 0m 42s |
| Coordinates | 10.6S 119W |
| Max. width of band | 27 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 20:36:51 |
| References | |
| Saros | 129 (51 of 80) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9519 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 2005. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across the surface of the Earth, while a partial solar eclipse will be visible over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
This eclipse is a hybrid event, a narrow total eclipse, and beginning and ending as an annular eclipse.
It was visible within a narrow corridor in the Pacific Ocean. The path of the eclipse started south of New Zealand and crossed the Pacific Ocean in a diagonal path and ended in the extreme northwestern part of South America.
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Animated path
This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| Saros | Map | Saros | Map | |
| 119 | 2004 April 19 Partial (south) |
124 | 2004 October 14 Partial (north) |
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| 129 | 2005 April 8 Hybrid |
134 Annular from Spain |
2005 October 3 Annular |
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| 139 Totality from Side, Turkey |
2006 March 29 Total |
144 Partial from São Paulo, Brazil |
2006 September 22 Annular |
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| 149 | 2007 March 19 Partial (north) |
154 | 2007 September 11 Partial (south) |
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It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses on April 8, 2005 and April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 .[1]
Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
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February 14, 1915 |
February 24, 1933 |
March 7, 1951 |
| 49 | 50 | 51 |
March 18, 1969 |
March 29, 1987 |
April 8, 2005 |
| 52 | 53 | 54 |
April 20, 2023 |
April 30, 2041 |
May 11, 2059 |
| 55 | 56 | |
May 22, 2077 |
June 2, 2095 |
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).
This series has 21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982 and June 21, 2058.
| June 21 | April 8-9 | January 26 | November 13-14 | September 1-2 |
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| 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
June 21, 1982 |
April 9, 1986 |
January 26, 1990 |
November 13, 1993 |
September 2, 1997 |
| 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
June 21, 2001 |
April 8, 2005 |
January 26, 2009 |
November 13, 2012 |
September 1, 2016 |
| 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
June 21, 2020 |
April 8, 2024 |
January 26, 2028 |
November 14, 2031 |
September 2, 2035 |
| 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
June 21, 2039 |
April 9, 2043 |
January 26, 2047 |
November 14, 2050 |
September 2, 2054 |
| 157 | ||||
June 21, 2058 |
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