| Solar eclipse of July 1, 2011 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Partial |
| Gamma | -1.4917 |
| Magnitude | 0.0971 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Coordinates | 65.2S 28.6E |
| Times (UTC) | |
| (P1) Partial begin | 7:53:47 |
| Greatest eclipse | 8:39:30 |
| (P4) Partial end | 9:22:45 |
| References | |
| Saros | 156 (1 of 69) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9533 |
A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 1, 2011. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
This is the first solar eclipse of saros series 156, only visible as a partial solar eclipse in a small area south of South Africa and north of Antarctica. At greatest eclipse, the magnitude is just 0.097.[1] It is the first new saros series to begin since saros 155 began with the partial solar eclipse of June 17, 1928. [2]
This eclipse is the third of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on January 4, 2011, June 1, 2011 and November 25, 2011.
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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 | |||
| 121 Partial from New Zealand |
2008 February 7 Annular |
126 Total from Novosibirsk, Russia |
2008 August 1 Total |
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| 131 Bandar Lampung, Indonesia |
2009 January 26 Annular |
136 Total from Bangladesh |
2009 July 22 Total |
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| 141 Bangui, Central African Republic |
2010 January 15 Annular |
146 Total from French Polynesia |
2010 July 11 Total |
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| 151 Partial from Poland |
2011 January 4 Partial (north) |
156 | 2011 July 1 Partial (south) |
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| Partial solar eclipses on June 1, 2011 and November 25, 2011 occur on the next lunar year eclipse set. | ||||||
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 22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011.
| September 11-12 | June 30-July 1 | April 18-19 | February 4-5 | November 22-23 |
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| 114 | 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 |
September 12, 1931 |
June 30, 1935 |
April 19, 1939 |
February 4, 1943 |
November 23, 1946 |
| 124 | 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 |
September 12, 1950 |
June 30, 1954 |
April 19, 1958 |
February 5, 1962 |
November 23, 1965 |
| 134 | 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 |
September 11, 1969 |
June 30, 1973 |
April 18, 1977 |
February 4, 1981 |
November 22, 1984 |
| 144 | 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 |
September 11, 1988 |
June 30, 1992 |
April 17, 1996 |
February 5, 2000 |
November 23, 2003 |
| 154 | 156 | |||
September 11, 2007 |
July 1, 2011 |
