Summary
An annular solar eclipse occurred on Thursday, March 27, 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. 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 Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
| Solar eclipse of March 27, 1941 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | −0.5025 |
| Magnitude | 0.9355 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 461 s (7 min 41 s) |
| Coordinates | 26°12′S 110°54′W / 26.2°S 110.9°W |
| Max. width of band | 276 km (171 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 20:08:08 |
| References | |
| Saros | 138 (27 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9377 |
Related eclipses edit
Solar eclipses 1939–1942 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.[1]
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1939 to 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 138 edit
It is a part of Saros cycle 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598 through February 18, 2482 with a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500. It has total eclipses from March 12, 2518 through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. The longest duration of totality will be only 56 seconds on April 3, 2554.
| Series members 25–35 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 26 | 27 |
 March 6, 1905 |
 March 17, 1923 |
March 27, 1941 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 |
 April 8, 1959 |
 April 18, 1977 |
 April 29, 1995 |
| 31 | 32 | 33 |
 May 10, 2013 |
 May 21, 2031 |
 May 31, 2049 |
| 34 | 35 | |
 June 11, 2067 |
 June 22, 2085 | |
Notes edit
- ^ 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
- Google interactive map
- Besselian elements