Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10, 2013,[1][2][3] with a magnitude of 0.9544. 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 3.6 days before apogee (on May 13, 2013, at 14:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.[4]
Annularity was visible from parts of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia, the Louisiade Archipelago (belonging to Papua New Guinea), the Solomon Islands, and Kiribati. All land within the path of annularity was west of the 180th meridian, except Tabuaeran in Kiribati. However, time zone of the Line Islands including Tabuaeran was changed from UTC−10 to UTC+14 in 1995, so annular eclipse visible from land was completely on May 10.
A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Hawaii. Part of these areas are west of the 180th meridian, seeing the eclipse on May 10, and the rest east of the 180th meridian, seeing the eclipse on May 9.
Visibility
| File:SolarEclipse2013May10A.GIF Animation of eclipse path |
Annularity was visible from a 171 to 225 kilometre-wide track that traversed Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Gilbert Islands, with the maximum of 6 minutes 3 seconds visible from the Pacific Ocean east of French Polynesia.
Images
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Simulation of greatest annularity east of Marakei, Kiribati.
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Anthony Lagoon, Australia, 22:20 GMT (May 9)
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Partial from Manly Beach, New South Wales, 22:30 GMT (May 9)
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Partial from Docklands, Victoria, 22:49 GMT (May 9)
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Partial from Rockhampton, Queensland, 22:57 GMT (May 9)
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Bairiki, Kiribati, 0:15 GMT
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Eclipse shadows from a coconut leaf shadow. From Tarawa, Kiribati at 0:30 GMT
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Partial from Waikiki, Hawaii, 2:12 GMT
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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.[5]
| Event | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| First Penumbral External Contact | 2013 May 09 at 21:26:16.9 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 2013 May 09 at 22:31:41.4 UTC |
| First Central Line | 2013 May 09 at 22:33:47.5 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 2013 May 09 at 22:35:53.8 UTC |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 2013 May 09 at 23:46:27.1 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 2013 May 10 at 00:20:48.1 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 2013 May 10 at 00:26:20.3 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 2013 May 10 at 00:29:30.5 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 2013 May 10 at 00:36:27.6 UTC |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 2013 May 10 at 01:06:21.8 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 2013 May 10 at 02:16:49.4 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 2013 May 10 at 02:18:57.6 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 2013 May 10 at 02:21:05.6 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 2013 May 10 at 03:26:30.5 UTC |
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.95443 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.91093 |
| Gamma | −0.26937 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 03h08m17.4s |
| Sun Declination | +17°36'34.3" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'50.4" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 03h08m28.1s |
| Moon Declination | +17°22'06.3" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 14'53.8" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°54'40.4" |
| ΔT | 67.0 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.
| April 25 Ascending node (full moon) |
May 10 Descending node (new moon) |
May 25 Ascending node (full moon) |
|---|---|---|
| File:Lunar eclipse chart close-2013Apr25.png | File:SE2013May10A.png | File:Lunar eclipse chart close-2013May25.png |
| Partial lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 112 |
Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 138 |
Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 150 |
Related eclipses
Eclipses in 2013
- A partial lunar eclipse on April 25.
- An annular solar eclipse on May 10.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 25.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on October 18.
- A hybrid solar eclipse on November 3.
Metonic
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 26, 2017
Tzolkinex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 29, 2006
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 21, 2020
Half-Saros
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 4, 2004
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 16, 2022
Tritos
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
Solar Saros 138
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 21, 2031
Inex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 30, 1984
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042
Triad
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1926
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 10, 2100
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.[6]
The partial solar eclipses on January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
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Saros 138
Template:Solar Saros series 138
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 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 22 | May 9–11 | February 26–27 | December 14–15 | October 2–3 |
| 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
| File:SE1971Jul22P.png July 22, 1971 |
File:SE1975May11P.png May 11, 1975 |
File:SE1979Feb26T.png February 26, 1979 |
File:SE1982Dec15P.png December 15, 1982 |
File:SE1986Oct03H.png October 3, 1986 |
| 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
| File:SE1990Jul22T.png July 22, 1990 |
File:SE1994May10A.png May 10, 1994 |
File:SE1998Feb26T.png February 26, 1998 |
File:SE2001Dec14A.png December 14, 2001 |
File:SE2005Oct03A.png October 3, 2005 |
| 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
| File:SE2009Jul22T.png July 22, 2009 |
File:SE2013May10A.png May 10, 2013 |
File:SE2017Feb26A.png February 26, 2017 |
File:SE2020Dec14T.png December 14, 2020 |
File:SE2024Oct02A.png October 2, 2024 |
| 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
| File:SE2028Jul22T.png July 22, 2028 |
File:SE2032May09A.png May 9, 2032 |
File:SE2036Feb27P.png February 27, 2036 |
File:SE2039Dec15T.png December 15, 2039 |
File:SE2043Oct03A.png October 3, 2043 |
| 156 | ||||
| File:SE2047Jul22P.png July 22, 2047 | ||||
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 2013 May 10
References
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- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Photos:
- Cape York Annular Eclipse APOD, 5/11/13
- Partial Solar Eclipse with Airplane APOD, 5/13/13
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