Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013

Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013
Solar eclipse of May 10, 2013
	Annularity viewed from Churchills Head, Australia.
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.2694
Magnitude	0.9544
Maximum eclipse
Duration	363 sec (6 m 3 s)
Coordinates	2°12′N 175°30′E / 2.2°N 175.5°E
Max. width of band	173 km (107 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	21:25:10
(U1) Total begin	22:30:34
Greatest eclipse	0:26:20
(U4) Total end	2:19:58
(P4) Partial end	3:25:23
References
Saros	138 (31 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9537

An annular solar eclipse took place at the Moon's descending node of the orbit on May 9–10 (UTC), 2013, with a magnitude of 0.9544. 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.

It was the 31st eclipse of the 138th Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on June 6, 1472 and will conclude with a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716.

Visibility[]

Animation of eclipse path

Annularity was visible from a 171 to 225 kilometre-wide track that traversed Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Gilbert Islands, with the maximum of 6 minutes 3 seconds visible from the Pacific Ocean east of French Polynesia.

Images[]

Simulation of greatest annularity east of Marakei, Kiribati.
Anthony Lagoon, Australia, 22:20 GMT (May 9)
Partial from Manly Beach, New South Wales, 22:30 GMT (May 9)
Partial from Docklands, Victoria, 22:49 GMT (May 9)
Partial from Rockhampton, Queensland, 22:57 GMT (May 9)
Bairiki, Kiribati, 0:15 GMT
Eclipse shadows from a coconut leaf shadow. From Tarawa, Kiribati at 0:30 GMT
Partial from Waikiki, Hawaii, 2:12 GMT

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 2013[]

A partial lunar eclipse on April 25.
An annular solar eclipse on May 10.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 25.
A penumbral lunar eclipse on October 18.
A hybrid solar eclipse on November 3.

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

Saros 138[]

It is a part of Saros cycle 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482 with a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500. It has total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. The longest duration of totality will be only 56 seconds on April 3, 2554.

Series members 25–35 occur between 1901 and 2100:
25	26	27
March 6, 1905	March 17, 1923	March 27, 1941
28	29	30
April 8, 1959	April 18, 1977	April 29, 1995
31	32	33
May 10, 2013	May 21, 2031	May 31, 2049
34	35
June 11, 2067	June 22, 2085

Inex series[]

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Inex series members between 1901 and 2100:
July 9, 1926 (Saros 135)	June 20, 1955 (Saros 136)	May 30, 1984 (Saros 137)
May 10, 2013 (Saros 138)	April 20, 2042 (Saros 139)	March 31, 2071 (Saros 140)
March 10, 2100 (Saros 141)

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 1801 and 2100
December 21, 1805 (Saros 119)	November 19, 1816 (Saros 120)	October 20, 1827 (Saros 121)
September 18, 1838 (Saros 122)	August 18, 1849 (Saros 123)	July 18, 1860 (Saros 124)
June 18, 1871 (Saros 125)	May 17, 1882 (Saros 126)	April 16, 1893 (Saros 127)
March 17, 1904 (Saros 128)	February 14, 1915 (Saros 129)	January 14, 1926 (Saros 130)
December 13, 1936 (Saros 131)	November 12, 1947 (Saros 132)	October 12, 1958 (Saros 133)
September 11, 1969 (Saros 134)	August 10, 1980 (Saros 135)	July 11, 1991 (Saros 136)
June 10, 2002 (Saros 137)	May 10, 2013 (Saros 138)	April 8, 2024 (Saros 139)
March 9, 2035 (Saros 140)	February 5, 2046 (Saros 141)	January 5, 2057 (Saros 142)
December 6, 2067 (Saros 143)	November 4, 2078 (Saros 144)	October 4, 2089 (Saros 145)
September 4, 2100 (Saros 146)

In the 22nd century:

Solar saros 147: annular solar eclipse of August 4, 2111
Solar saros 148: total solar eclipse of July 4, 2122
Solar saros 149: total solar eclipse of June 3, 2133
Solar saros 150: annular solar eclipse of May 3, 2144
Solar saros 151: annular solar eclipse of April 2, 2155
Solar saros 152: total solar eclipse of March 2, 2166
Solar saros 153: annular solar eclipse of January 29, 2177
Solar saros 154: annular solar eclipse of December 29, 2187
Solar saros 155: total solar eclipse of November 28, 2198

In the 23rd century:

Solar saros 156: annular solar eclipse of October 29, 2209
Solar saros 157: annular solar eclipse of September 27, 2220
Solar saros 158: total solar eclipse of August 28, 2231
Solar saros 159: partial solar eclipse of July 28, 2242
Solar saros 160: partial solar eclipse of June 26, 2253
Solar saros 161: partial solar eclipse of May 26, 2264
Solar saros 162: partial solar eclipse of April 26, 2275
Solar saros 163: partial solar eclipse of March 25, 2286
Solar saros 164: partial solar eclipse of February 22, 2297

Metonic cycle[]

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 events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 21–22	May 9–11	February 26–27	December 14–15	October 2–3
106	108	110	112	114
July 21, 1952	May 10, 1956	February 26, 1960	December 16, 1963	October 3, 1967
116	118	120	122	124
July 22, 1971	May 11, 1975	February 26, 1979	December 15, 1982	October 3, 1986
126	128	130	132	134
July 22, 1990	May 10, 1994	February 26, 1998	December 14, 2001	October 3, 2005
136	138	140	142	144
July 22, 2009	May 10, 2013	February 26, 2017	December 14, 2020	October 2, 2024
146	148	150	152	154
July 22, 2028	May 9, 2032	February 27, 2036	December 15, 2039	October 3, 2043
156
July 22, 2047