| Solar eclipse of October 1, 1940 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Total |
| Gamma | -0.2573 |
| Magnitude | 1.0645 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 5m 35s |
| Coordinates | 17.5S 18.2W |
| Max. width of band | 218 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 12:44:06 |
| References | |
| Saros | 133 (41 of 72) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9376 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on October 1, 1940. 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.
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This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||
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| 118 | April 19, 1939 Annular |
123 | October 12, 1939 Total |
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| 128 | April 7, 1940 Annular |
133 | October 1, 1940 Total |
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| 138 | March 27, 1941 Annular |
143 | September 21, 1941 Total |
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| 148 | March 16, 1942 Partial |
153 | September 10, 1942 Partial |
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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. Thus it is becoming increasingly irrelevant as the most populous continents are in the northern hemisphere. Each eclipse is heading closer towards Antarctica.
Series members 39-49 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 39 | 40 | 41 |
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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 | |
December 17, 2066 |
December 27, 2084 |
