Solar eclipse of June 17, 1909

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Solar eclipse of June 17, 1909
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureHybrid
Gamma0.8957
Magnitude1.0065
Maximum eclipse
Duration24 s (0 min 24 s)
Coordinates82°54′N 123°36′E / 82.9°N 123.6°E / 82.9; 123.6
Max. width of band51 km (32 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse23:18:38
References
Saros145 (16 of 77)
Catalog # (SE5000)9302

A hybrid solar eclipse occurred on June 17, 1909.[1][2][3] 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 was a hybrid, starting and ending as an annular eclipse.

The path of totality crossed central Russia, the Arctic Ocean, northeastern Ellesmere Island in Canada, Greenland, and annularity crossed southern Siberia in Russia (now in northeastern Kazakhstan and southern Russia) and southern Greenland.

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses 1906–1909[edit]

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.[4]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1906 to 1909
Ascending node   Descending node
115 July 21, 1906

Partial
120 January 14, 1907

Total
125 July 10, 1907

Annular
130 January 3, 1908

Total
135 June 28, 1908

Annular
140 December 23, 1908

Hybrid
145 June 17, 1909

Hybrid
150 December 12, 1909

Partial

External links[edit]

  1. ^ "First eclipse of sun for this year today". Knoxville Sentinel. Knoxville, Tennessee. 1909-06-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Frederic J. Haskin (1909-06-17). "Eclipse of the sun". The Salt Lake Herald. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Today's shadow of the sun scarcely visible in this region". Daily News-Republican. Lawton, Oklahoma. 1909-06-17. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.