Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014

Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
	Partial from Adelaide, Australia
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-1.00001
Magnitude	0.9868
Maximum eclipse
Duration	-
Coordinates	70°36′S 131°18′E / 70.6°S 131.3°E
Max. width of band	- km
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	3:52:38
(U1) Total begin	5:47:50
Greatest eclipse	6:04:33
(U4) Total end	6:09:20
(P4) Partial end	8:14:28
References
Saros	148 (21 of 75)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9539

An annular solar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. 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. The center of the Moon's shadow missed the Earth's South Pole, but the partial eclipse was visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia, and an annular eclipse was visible from a small part of Antarctica.

This eclipse's gamma value is closer to 1 than any other eclipse from 2000 B.C. to 3000 A.D. This means the center of the moon shadow passes almost exactly at the surface of the Earth, barely missing the Antarctic continent by a few kilometers.

Visibility[]

Animation of eclipse path

Images[]

Simulated annularity from Victoria Land
Partial from Scarborough, Queensland, 7:03 UTC
Partial from Lake Wendouree, Victoria, 7:04 UTC

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2014[]

A total lunar eclipse on April 15.
A non-central annular solar eclipse on April 29.
A total lunar eclipse on October 8.
A partial solar eclipse on October 23.

Solar eclipses 2011–2014[]

This eclipse is a member of the 2011–2014 solar eclipse 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]^{[Note 1]}

Solar eclipse series sets from 2011–2014
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
118 Partial from Tromsø, Norway	2011 June 01 Partial (north)	1.2130	123	2011 November 25 Partial (south)	-1.0536
128 Middlegate, Nevada	2012 May 20 Annular	0.4828	133 Cairns, Australia	2012 November 13 Total	-0.3719
138 Churchills Head, Australia	2013 May 10 Annular	-0.2693	143 Partial from Libreville, Gabon	2013 November 03 Hybrid	0.3271
148 Partial from Adelaide, Australia	2014 April 29 Annular (non-central)	-0.9999	153 Partial from Minneapolis	2014 October 23 Partial (north)	1.0908

Note: Total Solar Eclipse on March 20, 2015, and a Partial Solar Eclipse of September 13, 2015 occur during the next lunar year set.

Saros 148[]

Solar saros 148, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 75 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on September 21, 1653. It has annular eclipses on April 29, 2014, and May 9, 2032, and a hybrid eclipse on May 20, 2050. It has total eclipses from May 31, 2068, to August 3, 2771. The series ends at member 75 as a partial eclipse on December 12, 2987. The longest total eclipse will be on April 26, 2609, at 5 minutes and 23 seconds.^[2]

Series members 15–25 occur between 1901 and 2100:
15	16	17
February 23, 1906	March 5, 1924	March 16, 1942
18	19	20
March 27, 1960	April 7, 1978	April 17, 1996
21	22	23
April 29, 2014	May 9, 2032	May 20, 2050
24	25
May 31, 2068	June 11, 2086

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.

Series members between 1901 and 2100
March 6, 1905 (Saros 138)	February 3, 1916 (Saros 139)	January 3, 1927 (Saros 140)
December 2, 1937 (Saros 141)	November 1, 1948 (Saros 142)	October 2, 1959 (Saros 143)
August 31, 1970 (Saros 144)	July 31, 1981 (Saros 145)	June 30, 1992 (Saros 146)
May 31, 2003 (Saros 147)	April 29, 2014 (Saros 148)	March 29, 2025 (Saros 149)
February 27, 2036 (Saros 150)	January 26, 2047 (Saros 151)	December 26, 2057 (Saros 152)
November 24, 2068 (Saros 153)	October 24, 2079 (Saros 154)	September 23, 2090 (Saros 155)

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, progressing from north to south between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029
July 10–12	April 29–30	February 15–16	December 4–5	September 21–23
96	98	100	102	104
July 12, 1915	April 30, 1919	February 15, 1923	December 5, 1926	September 22, 1930
106	108	110	112	114
July 11, 1934	April 30, 1938	February 15, 1942	December 4, 1945	September 22, 1949
116	118	120	122	124
July 11, 1953	April 30, 1957	February 15, 1961	December 4, 1964	September 22, 1968
126	128	130	132	134
July 10, 1972	April 29, 1976	February 16, 1980	December 4, 1983	September 23, 1987
136	138	140	142	144
July 11, 1991	April 29, 1995	February 16, 1999	December 4, 2002	September 22, 2006
146	148	150	152	154
July 11, 2010	April 29, 2014	February 15, 2018	December 4, 2021	September 21, 2025
156	158	160	162	164
July 11, 2029	April 29, 2033	February 15, 2037	December 4, 2040	September 21, 2044