Solar eclipse of March 19, 2007

Solar eclipse of March 19, 2007
Solar eclipse of March 19, 2007
	From Jaipur, India at sunrise
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.0728
Magnitude	0.8756
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	61°00′N 55°30′E / 61°N 55.5°E
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	2:32:57
References
Saros	149 (20 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9523

A partial solar eclipse occurred on March 18–19, 2007. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

This partial eclipse was visible from India at sunrise, across Asia, and ending near sunset over northern Alaska. The eclipse also was visible in the eastern part of European Russia at sunrise. This was the second eclipse of the eclipse season, the first being the March 2007 lunar eclipse.

Visibility[]

Images[]

Eclipse progression from Hyderabad, India

Maharagama, Sri Lanka, 1:03 UTC
Eclipse shadow from Khon Kaen, Thailand, 1:28 UTC

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2007[]

A total lunar eclipse on March 3.
A partial solar eclipse on March 19.
A total lunar eclipse on August 28.
A partial solar eclipse on September 11.

Solar eclipses 2004–2007[]

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 2004–2007
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
119	2004 April 19 Partial (south)	-1.13345	124	2004 October 14 Partial (north)	1.03481
129 Partial from Naiguatá	2005 April 08 Hybrid	-0.34733	134 Annular from Madrid, Spain	2005 October 03 Annular	0.33058
139 Total from Side, Turkey	2006 March 29 Total	0.38433	144 Partial from São Paulo, Brazil	2006 September 22 Annular	-0.40624
149 From Jaipur, India	2007 March 19 Partial (north)	1.07277	154 From Córdoba, Argentina	2007 September 11 Partial (south)	-1.12552

Saros 149[]

Solar saros 149, repeating every about 18 years and 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 21, 1664. It has total eclipses from April 9, 2043, to October 2, 2331. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 28, 2926. The longest total eclipse will be on July 17, 2205, at 4 minutes and 10 seconds.^[2]

Series members 15–25 occur between 1901 and 2100:
15	16	17
January 23, 1917	February 3, 1935	February 14, 1953
18	19	20
February 25, 1971	March 7, 1989	March 19, 2007
21	22	23
March 29, 2025	April 9, 2043	April 20, 2061
24	25
May 1, 2079	May 11, 2097

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 January 5, 1935 and August 11, 2018
January 4-5	October 23-24	August 10-12	May 30-31	March 18-19
111	113	115	117	119
January 5, 1935		August 12, 1942	May 30, 1946	March 18, 1950
121	123	125	127	129
January 5, 1954	October 23, 1957	August 11, 1961	May 30, 1965	March 18, 1969
131	133	135	137	139
January 4, 1973	October 23, 1976	August 10, 1980	May 30, 1984	March 18, 1988
141	143	145	147	149
January 4, 1992	October 24, 1995	August 11, 1999	May 31, 2003	March 19, 2007
151	153	155
January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014	August 11, 2018