| Solar eclipse of September 9, 1904 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Total |
| Gamma | -0.1625 |
| Magnitude | 1.0709 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 6m 20s |
| Coordinates | 3.7S 134.5W |
| Max. width of band | 234 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 20:44:21 |
| References | |
| Saros | 133 (39 of 72) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9291 |
A total solar eclipse will occur on September 9, 1904. 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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| 108 | April 8, 1902 Partial |
118 | March 29, 1903 Annular |
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| 123 | September 21, 1903 Total |
128 | March 17, 1904 Annular |
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| 133 | September 9, 1904 Total |
138 | March 6, 1905 Annular |
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| 143 | August 30, 1905 Total |
148 | February 23, 1906 Partial |
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| 153 | August 20, 1906 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 |
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 synchonization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anamolistic 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) |
