Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922

Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922
Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.1711
Magnitude	0.9381
Maximum eclipse
Duration	470 sec (7 m 50 s)
Coordinates	12°18′N 18°00′W / 12.3°N 18°W
Max. width of band	233 km (145 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:05:26
References
Saros	128 (53 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9332

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 28, 1922. 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. Annularity was visible from Peru, Brazil, French West Africa (parts now belonging to Senegal, Mauritania and Mali), British Gambia (today's Gambia) including capital Banjul, French Algeria (today's Algeria), Italian Libya (today's Libya), Egypt, Kingdom of Hejaz and Sultanate of Nejd (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), and British Kuwait.

Related eclipses[]

Solar eclipses 1921–1924[]

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 1921–1924
Descending node		Ascending node
118	April 8, 1921 Annular	123	October 1, 1921 Total
128	March 28, 1922 Annular	133	September 21, 1922 Total
138	March 17, 1923 Annular	143	September 10, 1923 Total
148	March 5, 1924 Partial	153	August 30, 1924 Partial

Saros 128[]

This eclipse is a member of the Solar Saros cycle 128, which includes 73 eclipses occurring in intervals of 18 years and 11 days. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. From May 16, 1417 through June 18, 1471 the series produced total solar eclipses, followed by hybrid solar eclipses from June 28, 1489 through July 31, 1543, and annular solar eclipses from August 11, 1561 through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.

Series members 52–68 occur between 1901 and 2200
52	53	54
March 17, 1904	March 28, 1922	April 7, 1940
55	56	57
April 19, 1958	April 29, 1976	May 10, 1994
58	59	60
May 20, 2012	June 1, 2030	June 11, 2048
61	62	63
June 22, 2066	July 3, 2084	July 15, 2102
64	65	66
July 25, 2120	August 5, 2138 (Partial)	August 16, 2156 (Partial)
67	68
August 27, 2174 (Partial)	September 6, 2192 (Partial)