Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, April 29, 2014,[1][2] with a magnitude of 0.9868. 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 Moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because it occurred 6.2 days after perigee (on April 23, 2014, at 1:20 UTC) and 7.2 days before apogee (on May 6, 2014, at 11:20 UTC).[3]

This eclipse's gamma value was closer to 1 than any other eclipse from 2000 B.C. to 3000 A.D. This means the center of the Moon's shadow passed almost exactly at the surface of the Earth, barely missing the Antarctic continent by a few kilometers, but an annular eclipse was visible from a small part of Antarctica, and a partial eclipse was visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia.

Visibility

File:SolarEclipse2014Apr29A.GIF
Animation of eclipse path

Images

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[4]

April 29, 2014 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 2014 April 29 at 03:53:46.0 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 2014 April 29 at 05:38:58.2 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 2014 April 29 at 05:58:45.6 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 2014 April 29 at 06:04:32.9 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 2014 April 29 at 06:10:41.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 2014 April 29 at 06:15:28.3 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 2014 April 29 at 08:15:37.1 UTC
April 29, 2014 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.98679
Eclipse Obscuration -
Gamma -0.99996
Sun Right Ascension 02h25m52.9s
Sun Declination +14°26'54.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'52.9"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7"
Moon Right Ascension 02h26m46.0s
Moon Declination +13°31'06.8"
Moon Semi-Diameter 15'38.4"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°57'24.1"
ΔT 67.3 s

Eclipse season

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Eclipse season of April 2014
April 15
Ascending node (full moon)
 April 29
Descending node (new moon)
File:Lunar eclipse chart close-2014Apr15.png File:SE2014Apr29A.png
Total lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 122		 Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 148

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2014

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 148

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2011–2014

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.[5]

The partial solar eclipses on January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011 to 2014
Descending node   Ascending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
118
File:Partial solar eclipse Tromsø 2011-05-31 (cropped).jpg
Partial in Tromsø, Norway 		June 1, 2011
File:SE2011Jun01P.png
Partial 		1.21300 123
File:Partial Solar Eclipse of 2011 11 25 -Hinode XRT- freeze frame.png
Hinode XRT footage 		November 25, 2011
File:SE2011Nov25P.png
Partial 		−1.05359
128
File:Solar Eclipse May 20,2012.jpg
Annularity in Red Bluff, CA, USA 		May 20, 2012
File:SE2012May20A.png
Annular 		0.48279 133
File:Solar eclipse of 2012 november 14 near Mt Carbine.jpg
Totality in Mount Carbine, Queensland, Australia 		November 13, 2012
File:SE2012Nov13T.png
Total 		−0.37189
138
File:Annular Solar Eclipse May 10 2013 Northern Territory Australia.JPG
Annularity in Churchills Head, Australia 		May 10, 2013
File:SE2013May10A.png
Annular 		−0.26937 143
File:2013 Solar Eclipse Libreville.JPG
Partial in Libreville, Gabon 		November 3, 2013
File:SE2013Nov03H.png
Hybrid 		0.32715
148
File:Partial Solar Eclipse April 29th 2014 (13898733668).jpg
Partial in Adelaide, Australia 		April 29, 2014
File:SE2014Apr29A.png
Annular (non-central) 		−0.99996 153
File:Partial solar eclipse Oct 23 2014 Minneapolis 5-36pm Ruen1.png
Partial in Minneapolis, MN, USA 		October 23, 2014
File:SE2014Oct23P.png
Partial 		1.09078

Saros 148

Template:Solar Saros series 148

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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 eclipse events between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–11 April 29–30 February 15–16 December 4 September 21–23
116 118 120 122 124
File:SE1953Jul11P.png
July 11, 1953 		File:SE1957Apr30A.png
April 30, 1957 		File:SE1961Feb15T.png
February 15, 1961 		File:SE1964Dec04P.png
December 4, 1964 		File:SE1968Sep22T.png
September 22, 1968
126 128 130 132 134
File:SE1972Jul10T.png
July 10, 1972 		File:SE1976Apr29A.png
April 29, 1976 		File:SE1980Feb16T.png
February 16, 1980 		File:SE1983Dec04A.png
December 4, 1983 		File:SE1987Sep23A.png
September 23, 1987
136 138 140 142 144
File:SE1991Jul11T.png
July 11, 1991 		File:SE1995Apr29A.png
April 29, 1995 		File:SE1999Feb16A.png
February 16, 1999 		File:SE2002Dec04T.png
December 4, 2002 		File:SE2006Sep22A.png
September 22, 2006
146 148 150 152 154
File:SE2010Jul11T.png
July 11, 2010 		File:SE2014Apr29A.png
April 29, 2014 		File:SE2018Feb15P.png
February 15, 2018 		File:SE2021Dec04T.png
December 4, 2021 		File:SE2025Sep21P.png
September 21, 2025
156
File:SE2029Jul11P.png
July 11, 2029

Tritos series

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Inex series

Template:Solar Inex series 2014 April 29

Notes

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References

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