Solar eclipse of September 21, 1941

Solar eclipse of September 21, 1941
Solar eclipse of September 21, 1941
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.4649
Magnitude	1.0379
Maximum eclipse
Duration	202 sec (3 m 22 s)
Coordinates	27°18′N 119°06′E / 27.3°N 119.1°E
Max. width of band	143 km (89 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	4:34:03
References
Saros	143 (19 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9378

A total solar eclipse occurred on September 21, 1941. 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 the Soviet Union (today's Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), China, Taiwan, Okinawa Prefecture and South Pacific Mandate (the parts now belonging to Northern Mariana and Marshall Islands) in Japan, and ended in the Pacific ocean.

Related eclipses[]

Solar eclipses of 1939–1942[]

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 1939–1942
Descending node		Ascending node
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
118	April 19, 1939 Annular	123	October 12, 1939 Total
128	April 7, 1940 Annular	133	October 1, 1940 Total
138	March 27, 1941 Annular	143	September 21, 1941 Total
148	March 16, 1942 Partial	153	September 10, 1942 Partial
The partial solar eclipse on August 12, 1942 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 143[]

It is a part of Saros cycle 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617 and total event from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995. It has hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067, and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2873. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.

Series members 17–28 occur between 1741 and 2100
8	9	10
May 23, 1743	June 3, 1761	June 14, 1779
11	12	13
June 24, 1797	July 6, 1851	July 17, 1833
14	15	16
July 28, 1851	August 7, 1869	August 19, 1887
17	18	19
August 30, 1905	September 10, 1923	September 21, 1941
20	21	22
October 2, 1959	October 12, 1977	October 24, 1995
23	24	25
November 3, 2013	November 14, 2031	November 25, 2049
26	27	28
December 6, 2067	December 16, 2085