Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, March 17, 1904,[1][2][3][4][5] with a magnitude of 0.9367. 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. Occurring about 3 days after apogee (on March 14, 1904, at 6:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.[6]
The path of annularity covered southern German East Africa (now southern Tanzania), northeastern tip of Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), northern Grande Comore Island in French Comoros (now Comoros), southern British Seychelles (now Seychelles), Archipelago of Agaléga which is located far away from the main island of British Mauritius (now Mauritius), most of the British Indian Ocean Territory (excluding the southern part of Diego Garcia), northwestern Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), southern Siam (now renamed as Thailand), French Indochina (the part now belonging to Cambodia, the southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including the major city Phnom Penh, now capital of Cambodia), all of the Paracel Islands, the northern tip of the American Philippines (now Philippines) and Japanese remote islands of Iwo Jima, South Iwo Jima and Minamitorishima.
In addition, a partial solar eclipse was seen within a much larger area, including the eastern half of Africa, southern West Asia, southern Afghanistan, South Asia except the northernmost tip of British Raj (now the northernmost tip of Pakistan), most of China except the northwest border, Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia, the extreme northern coast of Australia, northwestern Melanesia, central and western Micronesia, and southeastern Russian Empire.
Observations
N. Donitch of the Royal Russian Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of today's Russian Academy of Sciences) traveled to Phnom Penh (now capital of Cambodia) via Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in French Indochina and made observations there. The weather was clear on the eclipse day, with only some fog in the morning. Donitch used a spectrometer and recorded changes in the temperature in about 2.5 hours, which dropped for about 3 °C.[7]
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.[8]
| Event | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| First Penumbral External Contact | 1904 March 17 at 02:36:24.1 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 1904 March 17 at 03:41:08.2 UTC |
| First Central Line | 1904 March 17 at 03:43:53.3 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 1904 March 17 at 03:46:38.6 UTC |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 1904 March 17 at 04:52:21.2 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 1904 March 17 at 05:37:38.0 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 1904 March 17 at 05:39:11.3 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 1904 March 17 at 05:40:44.1 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 1904 March 17 at 05:45:36.1 UTC |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 1904 March 17 at 06:28:59.4 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 1904 March 17 at 07:34:47.3 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 1904 March 17 at 07:37:30.8 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 1904 March 17 at 07:40:14.2 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 1904 March 17 at 08:44:57.8 UTC |
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.93675 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.87751 |
| Gamma | 0.12993 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 23h46m07.3s |
| Sun Declination | -01°30'13.7" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'04.1" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.8" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 23h45m58.8s |
| Moon Declination | -01°23'30.5" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 14'49.6" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°54'24.9" |
| ΔT | 2.9 s |
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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
| March 2 Ascending node (full moon) |
March 17 Descending node (new moon) |
March 31 Ascending node (full moon) |
|---|---|---|
| File:Lunar eclipse chart close-1904Mar02.png | File:SE1904Mar17A.png | File:Lunar eclipse chart close-1904Mar31.png |
| Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 102 |
Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 128 |
Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 140 |
Related eclipses
Eclipses in 1904
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 2.
- An annular solar eclipse on March 17.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 31.
- A total solar eclipse on September 9.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on September 24.
Metonic
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 3, 1908
Tzolkinex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 1, 1897
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 28, 1911
Half-Saros
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 11, 1895
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 22, 1913
Tritos
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 16, 1893
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 14, 1915
Solar Saros 128
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 5, 1886
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922
Inex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 6, 1875
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 24, 1933
Triad
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 16, 1817
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 15, 1991
Solar eclipses of 1902–1906
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.[9]
The partial solar eclipses on May 7, 1902 and October 31, 1902 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on July 21, 1906 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1902 to 1906 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 108 | April 8, 1902 File:SE1902Apr08P.png Partial |
1.5024 | 113 | October 1, 1902 | ||
| 118 | March 29, 1903 File:SE1903Mar29A.png Annular |
0.8413 | 123 | September 21, 1903 File:SE1903Sep21T.png Total |
−0.8967 | |
| 128 | March 17, 1904 File:SE1904Mar17A.png Annular |
0.1299 | 133 | September 9, 1904 File:SE1904Sep09T.png Total |
−0.1625 | |
| 138 | March 6, 1905 File:SE1905Mar06A.png Annular |
−0.5768 | 143 File:PSM V68 D565 Sun corona of August 30 1905 taken with 40 foot camera.png |
August 30, 1905 File:SE1905Aug30T.png Total |
0.5708 | |
| 148 | February 23, 1906 File:SE1906Feb23P.png Partial |
−1.2479 | 153 | August 20, 1906 File:SE1906Aug20P.png Partial |
1.3731 | |
Saros 128
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 128, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 16, 1417 through June 18, 1471; hybrid eclipses from June 28, 1489 through July 31, 1543; and annular eclipses from August 11, 1561 through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. 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 totality was produced by member 27 at 1 minutes, 45 seconds on June 7, 1453, and the longest duration of annularity was produced by member 48 at 8 minutes, 35 seconds on February 1, 1832. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[10]
| Series members 47–68 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 47 | 48 | 49 |
| File:SE1814Jan21A.gif January 21, 1814 |
File:SE1832Feb01A.gif February 1, 1832 |
File:SE1850Feb12A.gif February 12, 1850 |
| 50 | 51 | 52 |
| File:SE1868Feb23A.gif February 23, 1868 |
File:SE1886Mar05A.gif March 5, 1886 |
File:SE1904Mar17A.png March 17, 1904 |
| 53 | 54 | 55 |
| File:SE1922Mar28A.png March 28, 1922 |
File:SE1940Apr07A.png April 7, 1940 |
File:SE1958Apr19A.png April 19, 1958 |
| 56 | 57 | 58 |
| File:SE1976Apr29A.png April 29, 1976 |
File:SE1994May10A.png May 10, 1994 |
File:SE2012May20A.png May 20, 2012 |
| 59 | 60 | 61 |
| File:SE2030Jun01A.png June 1, 2030 |
File:SE2048Jun11A.png June 11, 2048 |
File:SE2066Jun22A.png June 22, 2066 |
| 62 | 63 | 64 |
| File:SE2084Jul03A.png July 3, 2084 |
File:SE2102Jul15A.png July 15, 2102 |
File:SE2120Jul25A.png July 25, 2120 |
| 65 | 66 | 67 |
| File:Saros128 65van73 SE2138Aug05P.jpg August 5, 2138 |
File:Saros128 66van73 SE2156Aug16P.jpg August 16, 2156 |
File:Saros128 67van73 SE2174Aug27P.jpg August 27, 2174 |
| 68 | ||
| File:Saros128 68van73 SE2192Sep06P.jpg September 6, 2192 | ||
Metonic series
Template:Solar Metonic series 1866–1953
Tritos series
This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Inex series
Template:Solar Inex series 2019 December 26
Notes
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References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Russia expedition for solar eclipse of March 17, 1904
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