Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014

Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-1.00001
Magnitude	0.9868
Maximum eclipse
Duration	-
Coordinates
Max. width of band	- km
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	3:52:38
(U1) Total begin	5:47:50
Greatest eclipse	6:04:33
(U4) Total end	6:09:20
(P4) Partial end	8:14:28
References
Saros	148 (21 of 75)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9539

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 29, 2014. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The center of the moon's shadow misses the south Pole of the Earth, but the partial eclipse was visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia.

Images

• SolarEclipse2014Apr29A.GIF

  Animation of path

• Annular solar eclipse April 29 2014.png

  Simulated greatest eclipse from Victoria Land

Related eclipses

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011–2014

Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
118	June 1, 2011 Partial		123	November 25, 2011 Partial
128 Middlegate, Nevada	May 20, 2012 Annular		133 150px Ellis Beach, Queensland	November 13, 2012 Total
138 Renner Springs, Australia	May 10, 2013 Annular		143 150px Partial from Accra, Ghana	November 3, 2013 Hybrid
148	April 29, 2014 Annular		153 Partial from Minneapolis, Minnesota	October 23, 2014 Partial

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).

This series has 21 eclipse events between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029.

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements
• A Partially Eclipsed Setting Sun, APOD 4/30/2014, partial eclipse of Adelaide, South Australia
• Brisbane Sunset Moonset, APOD 5/1/2014, partial eclipse of Brisbane, Queensland