Solar eclipse of February 25, 1914
| Solar eclipse of February 25, 1914 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.9416 |
| Magnitude | 0.9248 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 335 sec (5 m 35 s) |
| Coordinates | 62°06′S 113°18′W / 62.1°S 113.3°W |
| Max. width of band | 839 km (521 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 0:13:01 |
| References | |
| Saros | 119 (60 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9313 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on February 25, 1914. 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.
Related eclipses[]
Solar eclipses of 1913–1917[]
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 1913–1917 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||
| 114 | August 31, 1913 Partial |
119 | February 25, 1914 Annular | |
| 124 | August 21, 1914 Total |
129 | February 14, 1915 Annular | |
| 134 | August 10, 1915 Annular |
139 | February 3, 1916 Total | |
| 144 | July 30, 1916 Annular |
149 | January 23, 1917 Partial | |
| 154 | July 19, 1917 Partial | |||
Saros 119[]
It is a part of Saros cycle 119, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 15, 850 AD. It contains total eclipses on August 9, 994 AD and August 20, 1012 with a hybrid eclipse on August 31, 1030. It has annular eclipses from September 10, 1048 through March 18, 1950. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 24, 2112. The longest duration of totality was only 32 seconds on August 20, 1012. The longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 37 seconds on September 1, 1625. The longest duration of hybridity was only 18 seconds on August 31, 1030.
| Series members 54–70 occur between 1801 and 2100: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 54 | 55 | 56 |
 December 21, 1805 |
 January 1, 1824 |
 January 11, 1842 |
| 57 | 58 | 59 |
 January 23, 1860 |
 February 2, 1878 |
February 13, 1896 |
| 60 | 61 | 62 |
February 25, 1914 |
 March 7, 1932 |
 March 18, 1950 |
| 63 | 64 | 65 |
 March 28, 1968 |
 April 9, 1986 |
 April 19, 2004 |
| 66 | 67 | 68 |
 April 30, 2022 |
 May 11, 2040 |
 May 22, 2058 |
| 69 | 70 | |
 June 1, 2076 |
 June 13, 2094 | |
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 29, 1903 (Saros 118) |
February 25, 1914 (Saros 119) |
 January 24, 1925 (Saros 120) | |
 December 25, 1935 (Saros 121) |
 November 23, 1946 (Saros 122) |
 October 23, 1957 (Saros 123) | |
 September 22, 1968 (Saros 124) |
 August 22, 1979 (Saros 125) |
 July 22, 1990 (Saros 126) | |
 June 21, 2001 (Saros 127) |
 May 20, 2012 (Saros 128) |
 April 20, 2023 (Saros 129) | |
 March 20, 2034 (Saros 130) |
 February 16, 2045 (Saros 131) |
 January 16, 2056 (Saros 132) | |
 December 17, 2066 (Saros 133) |
 November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) |
 October 14, 2088 (Saros 135) | |
 September 14, 2099 (Saros 136) |
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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).
| 21 eclipse events between July 21, 1906 and July 20, 1982 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 20–21 | May 9 | February 24–25 | December 13–14 | October 1–2 |
| 105 | 107 | 109 | 111 | 113 |
 December 13, 1898 |
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| 115 | 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 |
 July 21, 1906 |
 May 9, 1910 |
February 25, 1914 |
 December 14, 1917 |
 October 1, 1921 |
| 125 | 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 |
 July 20, 1925 |
 May 9, 1929 |
 February 24, 1933 |
 December 13, 1936 |
 October 1, 1940 |
| 135 | 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 |
 July 20, 1944 |
 May 9, 1948 |
 February 25, 1952 |
 December 14, 1955 |
 October 2, 1959 |
| 145 | 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 |
 July 20, 1963 |
 May 9, 1967 |
 February 25, 1971 |
 December 13, 1974 |
 October 2, 1978 |
| 155 | ||||
 July 20, 1982 | ||||
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.
References[]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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