Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994

Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994
Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994
	Totality with diamond ring effect in Litoral Province, Bolivia
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.3522
Magnitude	1.0535
Maximum eclipse
Duration	263 sec (4 m 23 s)
Coordinates	35°24′S 34°12′W / 35.4°S 34.2°W
Max. width of band	189 km (117 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:40:06
References
Saros	133 (44 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9496

A total solar eclipse occurred on November 3, 1994. 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. Totality was visible in Peru, northern Chile, Bolivia, northern Argentina, Paraguay including the northeastern part of its capital Asunción, Brazil and Gough Island of British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The Iguazu Falls, one of the largest waterfalls systems in the world, also lies in the path of totality. Totality lasted about 4.4 minutes, so it was a relatively long total solar eclipse. Occurring only 10 hours and 2 minutes before perigee (Perigee on November 3, 1994 at 23:41 UTC, while greatest eclipse at 13:39 UTC), the moon's apparent diameter was too larger.

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More details about the Total Solar Eclipse of 1994 November 3.[]

Eclipse Magnitude: 1.05351

Eclipse Obscuration: 1.10989

Gamma: -0.35216

Greatest Eclipse: 1994 November 03 at 13:39:05.4 UTC

Location of Greatest Eclipse: 35º21'22" S, 34º13'21" W, South Atlantic Ocean, 1,586 km (985.5 mi) off the coast of Brazil

Duration of Totality: 4 minutes, 23.28 seconds (263.28 seconds)

Sun Right Ascension: 14.57

Sun Declination: -15.1

Sun Diameter: 1934.8 arc-seconds

Moon Right Ascension: 14.56

Moon Declination: -15.4

Moon Diameter: 2006.0 arc-seconds

Saros Series: 133rd (44 of 72)

Related eclipses[]

Eclipses of 1994[]

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

Solar eclipses 1993–1996[]

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 1993–1996
Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
118	1993 May 21 Partial	1.13720	123	1993 November 13 Partial	-1.04114
128 Partial from Bismarck, ND	1994 May 10 Annular	0.40771	133 Totality at Bolivia	1994 November 3 Total	-0.35216
138	1995 April 29 Annular	-0.33821	143 Totality at Dundlod, India	1995 October 24 Total	0.35176
148	1996 April 17 Partial	-1.05796	153	1996 October 12 Partial	1.12265

Saros 133[]

Solar Saros 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435, through January 13, 1526, with a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544. It has total eclipses from February 3, 1562, through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 49.97 seconds on August 7, 1850.^[2] The total eclipses of this saros series are getting shorter and farther south with each iteration. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.

Series members 30–56 occur between 1742 and 2211
30	31	32
		June 24, 1778
33	34	35

36	37	38
	August 18, 1868	August 29, 1886
39	40	41
September 9, 1904	September 21, 1922	October 1, 1940
42	43	44
October 12, 1958	October 23, 1976	November 3, 1994
45	46	47
November 13, 2012	November 25, 2030	December 5, 2048
48	49	50
December 17, 2066	December 27, 2084	January 8, 2103
51	52	53
January 19, 2121	January 30, 2139	February 9, 2157
54	55	56
February 21, 2175	March 3, 2193	March 15, 2211

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:
January 3, 1908 (Saros 130)	December 13, 1936 (Saros 131)	November 23, 1965 (Saros 132)
November 3, 1994 (Saros 133)	October 14, 2023 (Saros 134)	September 22, 2052 (Saros 135)
September 3, 2081 (Saros 136)

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.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between June 10, 1964, and August 21, 2036
June 10–11	March 27–29	January 15–16	November 3	August 21–22
117	119	121	123	125
June 10, 1964	March 28, 1968	January 16, 1972	November 3, 1975	August 22, 1979
127	129	131	133	135
June 11, 1983	March 29, 1987	January 15, 1991	November 3, 1994	August 22, 1998
137	139	141	143	145
June 10, 2002	March 29, 2006	January 15, 2010	November 3, 2013	August 21, 2017
147	149	151	153	155
June 10, 2021	March 29, 2025	January 14, 2029	November 3, 2032	August 21, 2036