Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927

Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.8163
Magnitude	1.0128
Maximum eclipse
Duration	50 sec (0 m 50 s)
Coordinates	78°06′N 73°48′E / 78.1°N 73.8°E
Max. width of band	77 km (48 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	6:23:27
References
Saros	145 (17 of 77)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9344

A total solar eclipse occurred on June 29, 1927. 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. The path of totality crossed far northern Europe and Asia, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Soviet Union (today's Russia) on June 29th (Wednesday), and finally passed Amukta in Alaska on June 28th (Tuesday). This was the first total eclipse visible from British mainland soil for 203 years. This eclipse is referenced in the closing pages of Dorothy L. Sayers' novel Unnatural Death.^[1]

Related eclipses[]

Solar eclipses 1924–1928[]

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.^[2]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1924–1928
Ascending node		Descending node
115	July 31, 1924 Partial	120	January 24, 1925 Total
125	July 20, 1925 Annular	130	January 14, 1926 Total
135	July 9, 1926 Annular	140	January 3, 1927 Annular
145	June 29, 1927 Total	150	December 24, 1927 Partial
155	June 17, 1928 Partial

Saros 145[]

This solar eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 145, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours, containing 77 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on January 4, 1639, and reached a first annular eclipse on June 6, 1891. It was a hybrid event on June 17, 1909, and total eclipses from June 29, 1927, through September 9, 2648. The series ends at member 77 as a partial eclipse on April 17, 3009. The longest eclipse will occur on June 25, 2522, with a maximum duration of totality of 7 minutes, 12 seconds. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon's ascending node.

Series members 10–32 occur between 1801 and 2359
10	11	12
April 13, 1801	April 24, 1819	May 4, 1837
13	14	15
May 16, 1855	May 26, 1873	June 6, 1891
16	17	18
June 17, 1909	June 29, 1927	July 9, 1945
19	20	21
July 20, 1963	July 31, 1981	August 11, 1999
22	23	24
August 21, 2017	September 2, 2035	September 12, 2053
25	26	27
September 23, 2071	October 4, 2089	October 16, 2107
28	29	30
October 26, 2125	November 7, 2143	November 17, 2161
31	32	33
November 28, 2179	December 9, 2197	December 21, 2215
34	35	36
December 31, 2233	January 12, 2252	January 22, 2270
37	38	39
February 2, 2288	February 14, 2306	February 25, 2324
40
March 8, 2342