Solar eclipse of February 4, 1943
Solar eclipse of February 4, 1943 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | 0.8734 |
Magnitude | 1.0331 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 159 s (2 min 39 s) |
Coordinates | 43°36′N 175°06′E / 43.6°N 175.1°E |
Max. width of band | 229 km (142 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 23:38:10 |
References | |
Saros | 120 (57 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9382 |
A total solar eclipse occurred between Thursday, February 4 and Friday, February 5, 1943. 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. It began on the morning on February 5 (Friday) over northeastern China (then occupied by Manchukuo), Primorsky Krai in the Soviet Union (now Russia), Hokkaido and southern Kunashir Island in Japan (Kunashir now belonging to Russia) and ended at sunset on February 4 (Thursday) over Alaska and Yukon in Canada.
Observations[edit]
In China, the eclipse occurred on February 5, the exact date of the Lunar New Year. However it was during the Second Sino-Japanese War and all the areas within the path of totality which is now in China were then under the control of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state. Chinese scientists did not make any observation for scientific purposes. A short report with the title "Tokyo total solar eclipse" was published in Kuomintang's official newspaper Central Daily News. Actually, Tokyo was out of the path of totality and only a partial eclipse was visible.[1]
The Japanese headquarters of the International Latitude Observatory, the predecessor of the Mizusawa VLBI Observatory of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Mizusawa, Iwate (now part of the city of Ōshū) sent an observation team to Kushiro, Hokkaido. Seiichi Oikawa, a member of the team, took photos of the total eclipse.[2] In Kushiro the weather conditions were good and the solar eclipse began at 6:46 am, 11 minutes after sunrise. About 1 hour and 5 minutes later, the sun was completely covered by the moon and the totality phase was seen for less than 2 minutes.[3]
In the Territory of Alaska (now the state of Alaska), a total eclipse was visible from cities including Seward, Valdez and Kodiac. Alaska's largest city, Anchorage was located near the northern edge of the path of totality. A total eclipse was visible in the southeastern part of the city. The University of Alaska held a conference on February 4, the exact day of the eclipse, to explain in-depth information on the eclipse.[4]
Related eclipses[edit]
Solar eclipses 1942–1946[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.[5]
Note: The partial solar eclipse on September 10, 1942 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1942 to 1946 | ||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||
115 | August 12, 1942 Partial |
120 | February 4, 1943 Total | |
125 | August 1, 1943 Annular |
130 | January 25, 1944 Total | |
135 | July 20, 1944 Annular |
140 | January 14, 1945 Annular | |
145 | July 9, 1945 Total |
150 | January 3, 1946 Partial | |
155 | June 29, 1946 Partial |
Saros 120[edit]
This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 120, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 27, 933 AD, and reached an annular eclipse on August 11, 1059. It was a hybrid event for 3 dates: May 8, 1510, through May 29, 1546, and total eclipses from June 8, 1564, through March 30, 2033. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 7, 2195. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes, 50 seconds on March 9, 1997. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.
Series members 55–65 occur between 1901 and 2100 | ||
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55 | 56 | 57 |
January 14, 1907 |
January 24, 1925 |
February 4, 1943 |
58 | 59 | 60 |
February 15, 1961 |
February 26, 1979 |
March 9, 1997 |
61 | 62 | 63 |
March 20, 2015 |
March 30, 2033 |
April 11, 2051 |
64 | 65 | |
April 21, 2069 |
May 2, 2087 |
Metonic series[edit]
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.
22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011. | ||||
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September 11-12 | June 30-July 1 | April 17-19 | February 4-5 | November 22-23 |
114 | 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 |
September 12, 1931 |
June 30, 1935 |
April 19, 1939 |
February 4, 1943 |
November 23, 1946 |
124 | 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 |
September 12, 1950 |
June 30, 1954 |
April 19, 1958 |
February 5, 1962 |
November 23, 1965 |
134 | 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 |
September 11, 1969 |
June 30, 1973 |
April 18, 1977 |
February 4, 1981 |
November 22, 1984 |
144 | 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 |
September 11, 1988 |
June 30, 1992 |
April 17, 1996 |
February 5, 2000 |
November 23, 2003 |
154 | 156 | |||
September 11, 2007 |
July 1, 2011 |
Notes[edit]
- ^ "《新闻调查》 19970314 寻踪日全食" (in Chinese). China Central Television. 14 March 1997. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015.
- ^ "日本公开1943年拍摄的日全食照片" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2020-05-01.
- ^ "北海道の広い範囲で皆既日食" (in Japanese). Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ^ The University of Alaska (1 March 1943). "Farthest-North Collegian" (pdf). Farthest-North Collegian.
- ^ 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.
References[edit]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC