Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Friday, April 8, 2005,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0074. It was a hybrid event, a narrow total eclipse, and beginning and ending as an annular eclipse.[2] 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. Occurring about 4.3 days after perigee (on April 4, 2005, at 12:10 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[3]

It was visible within a narrow corridor in the Pacific Ocean. The path of the eclipse started south of New Zealand and crossed the Pacific Ocean in a diagonal path and ended in the extreme northwestern part of South America. The total solar eclipse was not visible on any land, but the annular solar eclipse was visible in the southern tip of Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.[4] A partial eclipse was visible for parts of New Zealand, Oceania, West Antarctica, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and western South America.

A partial eclipse was photographed from Nicaragua; in Bogota, several hundred schoolchildren watched the eclipse despite cloud cover.[5] In Cordoba, an expedition from Bogota's National University observed the eclipse.[5]

In Panama, where the eclipse was visible (and nearly total) from nearly the entire country, it was reported that hundreds of people had booked hotels to view it, including astronomers from the United States, Mexico, France, Belgium, Denmark, Iran and Spain.[6] While the totality of the eclipse occurred over the Pacific Ocean, it could be seen from some parts of the southern United States; it was reported that the southernmost parts of Florida had the best viewing conditions (with as much as 50% of the sun occluded),[2][7] although rainy conditions in part of the region meant the event was partially obscured.[5]

Observations

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Fred Espenak and Williams College professor Jay Pasachoff boarded the cruise ship Galapagos Legend and observed the eclipse from the sea west of the Galápagos Islands. The ship first docked at several islands in the Galapagos Islands from April 1 to 3, and then started sailing westward toward the path of totality on April 4. It was cloudy at first on April 8. The ship encountered relatively large wind and waves while sailing south to look for a location with clear sky. The clouds began to disperse from 2 pm, and the sun could be seen through the thin clouds around 2:40. It cleared up later and during the totality, the weather was excellent and the observation was very successful. After another several days of sailing, the ship arrived at the Galápagos Islands again on April 12 and docked at several islands in the following days.[8]

In addition, cruise ships including the MV Discovery and MS Paul Gauguin carried passengers around the Pitcairn Islands and French Polynesia.[9] A team of NASA's did ground-based observations Penonomé, Coclé, Panama.[10][11]

Images

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Animated path

Gallery

Eclipse season

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of April 2005
April 8
Ascending node (new moon)
 April 24
Descending node (full moon)
File:SE2005Apr08H.png File:Lunar eclipse chart close-05apr24.png
Hybrid solar eclipse
Solar Saros 129		 Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 141

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2005

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 129

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2004–2007

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.[12]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2004 to 2007
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
119 April 19, 2004
File:SE2004Apr19P.png
Partial 		−1.13345 124 October 14, 2004
File:SE2004Oct14P.png
Partial 		1.03481
129
File:Solar eclipse at sunset (2937676527) (cropped).jpg
Partial in Naiguatá, Venezuela 		April 8, 2005
File:SE2005Apr08H.png
Hybrid 		−0.34733 134
File:Ecl-ann.jpg
Annularity in Madrid, Spain 		October 3, 2005
File:SE2005Oct03A.png
Annular 		0.33058
139
File:Diamondring-eclipse-March03-29-2006.jpg
Totality in Side, Turkey 		March 29, 2006
File:SE2006Mar29T.png
Total 		0.38433 144
File:Helder da Rocha - Partial solar eclipse (by-sa).jpg
Partial in São Paulo, Brazil 		September 22, 2006
File:SE2006Sep22A.png
Annular 		−0.40624
149
File:Solar Eclipse (3445953058) (cropped).jpg
Partial in Jaipur, India 		March 19, 2007
File:SE2007Mar19P.png
Partial 		1.07277 154
File:Eclipse solar 01 (1360685468) (cropped).jpg
Partial in Córdoba, Argentina 		September 11, 2007
File:SE2007Sep11P.png
Partial 		−1.12552

Saros 129

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 80 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses from May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969; hybrid eclipses from March 29, 1987 through April 20, 2023; and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 34 at 5 minutes, 10 seconds on October 4, 1698, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 58 at 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[13]

Series members 40–61 occur between 1801 and 2200:
40 41 42
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December 10, 1806 		File:SE1824Dec20Am.gif
December 20, 1824 		File:SE1842Dec31A.gif
December 31, 1842
43 44 45
File:SE1861Jan11A.gif
January 11, 1861 		File:SE1879Jan22A.gif
January 22, 1879 		File:SE1897Feb01A.gif
February 1, 1897
46 47 48
File:SE1915Feb14A.png
February 14, 1915 		File:SE1933Feb24A.png
February 24, 1933 		File:SE1951Mar07A.png
March 7, 1951
49 50 51
File:SE1969Mar18A.png
March 18, 1969 		File:SE1987Mar29H.png
March 29, 1987 		File:SE2005Apr08H.png
April 8, 2005
52 53 54
File:SE2023Apr20H.png
April 20, 2023 		File:SE2041Apr30T.png
April 30, 2041 		File:SE2059May11T.png
May 11, 2059
55 56 57
File:SE2077May22T.png
May 22, 2077 		File:SE2095Jun02T.png
June 2, 2095 		File:Saros129 57van80 SE2113Jun13T.jpg
June 13, 2113
58 59 60
File:Saros129 58van80 SE2131Jun25T.jpg
June 25, 2131 		File:Saros129 59van80 SE2149Jul05T.jpg
July 5, 2149 		File:Saros129 60van80 SE2167Jul16T.jpg
July 16, 2167
61
File:Saros129 61van80 SE2185Jul26T.jpg
July 26, 2185

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 ascending node.

21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982 and June 21, 2058
June 21 April 8–9 January 26 November 13–14 September 1–2
117 119 121 123 125
File:SE1982Jun21P.png
June 21, 1982 		File:SE1986Apr09P.png
April 9, 1986 		File:SE1990Jan26A.png
January 26, 1990 		File:SE1993Nov13P.png
November 13, 1993 		File:SE1997Sep02P.png
September 2, 1997
127 129 131 133 135
File:SE2001Jun21T.png
June 21, 2001 		File:SE2005Apr08H.png
April 8, 2005 		File:SE2009Jan26A.png
January 26, 2009 		File:SE2012Nov13T.png
November 13, 2012 		File:SE2016Sep01A.png
September 1, 2016
137 139 141 143 145
File:SE2020Jun21A.png
June 21, 2020 		File:SE2024Apr08T.png
April 8, 2024 		File:SE2028Jan26A.png
January 26, 2028 		File:SE2031Nov14H.png
November 14, 2031 		File:SE2035Sep02T.png
September 2, 2035
147 149 151 153 155
File:SE2039Jun21A.png
June 21, 2039 		File:SE2043Apr09T.png
April 9, 2043 		File:SE2047Jan26P.png
January 26, 2047 		File:SE2050Nov14P.png
November 14, 2050 		File:SE2054Sep02P.png
September 2, 2054
157
File:SE2058Jun21P.png
June 21, 2058

Tritos series

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Inex series

Template:Solar Inex series 2005 April 8

Notes

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