Solar eclipse of April 6, 1913

20th-century partial solar eclipse

61°12′N 175°42′E / 61.2°N 175.7°E / 61.2; 175.7Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse17:33:07ReferencesSaros147 (17 of 80)Catalog # (SE5000)9310

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, April 6, 1913,^[1]^[2] with a magnitude of 0.4244. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1913

A total lunar eclipse on March 22, 1913.
A partial solar eclipse on April 6, 1913.
A partial solar eclipse on August 31, 1913.
A total lunar eclipse on September 15, 1913.
A partial solar eclipse on September 30, 1913.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 17, 1909
Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 23, 1917

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 23, 1906
Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 18, 1920

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 31, 1904
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 11, 1922

Tritos

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 7, 1902
Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 5, 1924

Solar Saros 147

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 26, 1895
Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 18, 1931

Inex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 25, 1884
Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 16, 1942

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 5, 1826
Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 5, 2000

Solar eclipses of 1910–1913

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.^[3]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1910 to 1913
Ascending node		Descending node
117	May 9, 1910 Total	122	November 2, 1910 Partial
127	April 28, 1911 Total	132	October 22, 1911 Annular
137	April 17, 1912 Hybrid	142	October 10, 1912 Total
147	April 6, 1913 Partial	152	September 30, 1913 Partial

Saros 147

Solar saros 147, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 80 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on October 12, 1624. It has annular eclipses from May 31, 2003, to July 31, 2706. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 24, 3049. The longest annular eclipse will be on November 21, 2291, at 9 minutes and 41 seconds.^[4]

Series members 17–27 occur between 1901 and 2100:
17	18	19
April 6, 1913	April 18, 1931	April 28, 1949
20	21	22
May 9, 1967	May 19, 1985	May 31, 2003
23	24	25
June 10, 2021	June 21, 2039	July 1, 2057
26	27
July 13, 2075	July 23, 2093

References

^ "APRIL HEAVENS ARE DESCRIBED". The Times-Democrat. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1913-04-06. p. 59. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "THE HEAVENS IN APRIL". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee. 1913-04-06. p. 74. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses NASA Eclipse Web Site.

External links

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