Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013

Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013

Partial from Accra, Ghana
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Hybrid
Gamma 0.3272
Magnitude 1.0159
Maximum eclipse
Duration 100 sec (1 m 40 s)
Coordinates 3°30′N 11°42′W / 3.5°N 11.7°W / 3.5; -11.7
Max. width of band 58 km (36 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin 10:04:34
(U1) Total begin 11:05:17
Greatest eclipse 12:47:36
(U4) Total end 14:27:42
(P4) Partial end 15:28:21
References
Saros 143 (23 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9538

A total solar eclipse occurred on 3 November 2013. It was a hybrid eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.0159, with a small portion over the western Atlantic Ocean at sunrise as an annular eclipse, and the rest is a narrow total solar eclipse.

Viewing

Totality was visible from the northern Atlantic Ocean (east of Florida) to Africa (Gabon (landfall), R. Congo, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia), with maximum of 1 minute and 39 seconds visible from the Atlantic Ocean south of Ivory Coast and Ghana.[1]

Places with partial darkening were the Eastern coast of North America, southern Greenland, Bermuda, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, Northern South America, almost all the African continent, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece, Malta, Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey and the Middle East.

This solar eclipse happened simultaneously with the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and it was possible to observe a partial solar eclipse in Abu Dhabi before the sunset while the F1 race took place, as shown briefly during its broadcast.

From space

Simulated shadow path
Observed shadow path from MSG satellite, in geostationary orbit

Solar eclipses 2011–2014

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. Note: Partial solar eclipses on January 4, 2011, and July 1, 2011, occur in the previous semester series.

Saros 143

It is a part of Saros cycle 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617 and total event from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995. It has hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067, and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2873. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887.[2]

Metonic series

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).

Notes

  1. ↑ Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 2013 Nov 03 NASA
  2. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros143.html

References


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