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Solar eclipse of July 30, 1916
Solar eclipse of July 30, 1916
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.7709
Magnitude	0.9447
Maximum eclipse
Duration	384 s (6 min 24 s)
Coordinates	29°00′S 132°24′E / 29°S 132.4°E
Max. width of band	313 km (194 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	2:06:10
References
Saros	144 (11 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9318

An annular solar eclipse occurred on July 30, 1916.^[1]^[2] 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible from only one country, Australia.

Related eclipses edit

Solar eclipses of 1913–1917 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.^[3]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1913 to 1917
Descending node		Ascending node
114	August 31, 1913 Partial	119	February 25, 1914 Annular
124	August 21, 1914 Total	129	February 14, 1915 Annular
134	August 10, 1915 Annular	139	February 3, 1916 Total
144	July 30, 1916 Annular	149	January 23, 1917 Partial
154	July 19, 1917 Partial

Saros 144 edit

It is a part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 11, 1736. It contains annular eclipses from July 7, 1880 through August 27, 2565. There are no total eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 5, 2980. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 52 seconds on December 29, 2168.

Series members 11–21 occur between 1901 and 2100:
11	12	13
Jul 30, 1916	Aug 10, 1934	Aug 20, 1952
14	15	16
Aug 31, 1970	Sep 11, 1988	Sep 22, 2006
17	18	19
Oct 2, 2024	Oct 14, 2042	Oct 24, 2060
20	21
Nov 4, 2078	Nov 15, 2096

Notes edit

^ "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. A STRIKING SPECTACLE. CROWDS USE SMOKED GLASS. WORK IN OBSERVATORY". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia. 1916-07-31. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-12-02 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "SOLAR ECLIPSE. SPLENDID VIEW IN SYDNEY". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. 1916-07-31. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-12-02 – via Newspapers.com.
^ 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.