Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930
| Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Hybrid |
| Gamma | 0.473 |
| Magnitude | 1.0003 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 1 sec (0 m 1 s) |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Max. width of band | 1 km (0.62 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 19:03:34 |
| References | |
| Saros | 137 (31 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9351 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on April 28, 1930. 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. This event is a hybrid, starting and ending as an annular eclipse.
The path of totality crossed the eastern pacific ocean, northwestern United States, and across central and eastern Canada, and northern Labrador of the Dominion of Newfoundland (today's Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada).
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses 1928-1931
Each member 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.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| 117 | May 19, 1928 Total |
122 | November 12, 1928 150px Partial |
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| 127 | May 9, 1929 150px Total |
132 | November 1, 1929 150px Annular |
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| 137 | April 28, 1930 150px Hybrid |
142 | October 21, 1930 Total |
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| 147 | April 18, 1931 150px Partial |
152 | October 11, 1931 150px Partial |
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Saros series 142
It is a part of Saros cycle 142, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 17, 1624. It contains one hybrid eclipse on July 14, 1768, and total eclipses from July 25, 1786 through October 29, 2543. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on June 5, 2904. The longest duration of totality will be 6 minutes, 34 seconds on May 28, 2291.[1]
Series members 17-27 occur between 1901 and 2100:
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References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- The solar eclipse of April 28, 1930 Popular Astronomy, Vol. 38, p. 537, Makemson, Maud W. [1]
- The Central Solar Eclipse of April 28, 1930 Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 24, p. 55 [2]
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