Solar eclipse of April 28, 1911

Solar eclipse of April 28, 1911
Solar eclipse of April 28, 1911
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.2294
Magnitude	1.0562
Maximum eclipse
Duration	297 sec (4 m 57 s)
Coordinates	1°54′N 151°54′W / 1.9°N 151.9°W
Max. width of band	190 km (120 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	22:27:22
References
Saros	127 (52 of 82)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9306

A total solar eclipse occurred on 28 April 1911. 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. Totality was visible from southeastern tip of Australia, Tonga, American Samoa and Cook Islands. Places west of International Date Line witnessed the eclipse on Saturday 29 April 1911.

Related eclipses[]

Solar eclipses 1910–1913[]

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 1910–1913
Ascending node		Descending node
117	May 9, 1910 Total	122	November 2, 1910 Partial
127	April 28, 1911 Total	132	October 22, 1911 Annular
137	April 17, 1912 Hybrid	142	October 10, 1912 Total
147	April 6, 1913 Partial	152	September 30, 1913 Partial

Saros 127[]

It is a part of Saros cycle 127, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 82 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 10, 991 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 14, 1352 through August 15, 2091. There are no annular eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 82 as a partial eclipse on March 21, 2452. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 40 seconds on August 30, 1532. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.^[2]

Series members 52–68 occur between 1901 and 2200
52	53	54
April 28, 1911	May 9, 1929	May 20, 1947
55	56	57
May 30, 1965	June 11, 1983	June 21, 2001
58	59	60
July 2, 2019	July 13, 2037	July 24, 2055
61	62	63
August 3, 2073	August 15, 2091	August 26, 2109 (Partial)
64	65	66
September 6, 2127 (Partial	September 16, 2145 (Partial)	September 28, 2163 (Partial)
67	68
October 8, 2181 (Partial)	October 19, 2199 (Partial)

Notes[]

^ 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.
^ "Solar Saros series 127". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

References[]

NASA graphics
Report on the total solar eclipse of 1911, April 28 Tonga Island, South Pacific

[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.

[2] "Solar Saros series 127". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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