Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930

Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Hybrid
Gamma 0.473
Magnitude 1.0003
Maximum eclipse
Duration 1 sec (0 m 1 s)
Coordinates 39°24′N 121°12′W / 39.4°N 121.2°W / 39.4; -121.2
Max. width of band 1 km (0.62 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 19:03:34
References
Saros 137 (31 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9351

A total solar eclipse occurred on April 28, 1930. 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. This event is a hybrid, starting and ending as an annular eclipse.

The path of totality crossed the eastern Pacific Ocean, northwestern United States, and across central and eastern Canada, and northern Labrador of the Dominion of Newfoundland (today's Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada).

Solar eclipses 1928–1931

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.

Saros series 142

It is a part of Saros cycle 142, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 17, 1624. It contains one hybrid eclipse on July 14, 1768, and total eclipses from July 25, 1786 through October 29, 2543. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on June 5, 2904. The longest duration of totality will be 6 minutes, 34 seconds on May 28, 2291.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros142.html

References

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