Solar eclipse of May 19, 1928

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Solar eclipse of May 19, 1928
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Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma 1.0048
Magnitude 1.014
Maximum eclipse
Duration-
Coordinates 63°18′S22°30′E / 63.3°S 22.5°E / -63.3; 22.5
Max. width of band- km
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse13:24:20
References
Saros 117 (64 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9347

A total solar eclipse occurred on May 19, 1928. 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.

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While it was a total solar eclipse, it was a non-central total eclipse.

This was the last of 56 umbral solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117. The 1st was in 936 AD and the 56th was in 1928. The total duration is 992 years.

Solar eclipses 1928–1931

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. [1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1928–1931
Ascending node Descending node
117 May 19, 1928
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Total (non-central)
122 November 12, 1928
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Partial
127 May 9, 1929
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Total
132 November 1, 1929
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Annular
137 April 28, 1930
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Hybrid
142 October 21, 1930
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Total
147 April 18, 1931
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Partial
152 October 11, 1931
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Partial

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.

22 eclipse events between December 24, 1916 and July 31, 2000
December 24–25October 12–13July 31-Aug 1May 18–20March 7–8
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December 23, 1878October 12, 1882July 31, 1886May 18, 1890March 7, 1894
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December 23, 1897October 12, 1901August 1, 1905May 19, 1909March 8, 1913
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December 24, 1916
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July 31, 1924
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March 7, 1932
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December 25, 1935
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December 25, 1954
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October 12, 1958
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December 24, 1973
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December 24, 2011October 13, 2015August 1, 2019May 19, 2023March 8, 2027

Notes

  1. van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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