Solar eclipse of December 13, 1936

Solar eclipse of December 13, 1936
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma -0.2493
Magnitude 0.9349
Maximum eclipse
Duration 445 sec (7 m 25 s)
Coordinates 37°48′S 172°36′W / 37.8°S 172.6°W / -37.8; -172.6
Max. width of band 251 km (156 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 23:28:12
References
Saros 131 (46 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9368

An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 13, 1936. 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.

Solar eclipses of 1935-1938

Each member 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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1935-1938
Ascending node   Descending node
111January 5, 1935

Partial		 116June 30, 1935

Partial
121December 25, 1935

Annular		 126June 19, 1936

Total
131December 13, 1936

Annular		 136June 8, 1937

Total
141December 2, 1937

Annular		 146May 29, 1938

Total
151November 21, 1938

Partial

Saros 131

It is a part of Saros cycle 131, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 1, 1125. It contains total eclipses from March 27, 1522 through May 30, 1612 and hybrid eclipses from June 10, 1630 through July 24, 1702, and annular eclipses from August 4, 1720 through June 18, 2243. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on September 2, 2369. The longest duration of totality was only 58 seconds on May 30, 1612.[1]

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.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros131.html

References

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