A partial solar eclipse occurred on Thursday, October 23, 2014,[1][2] with a magnitude of 0.81141. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. Occurring only 5.7 days after apogee (Apogee on October 18, 2014), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
Solar eclipse of October 23, 2014 | |
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Map | |
Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | 1.0908 |
Magnitude | 0.8114 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 71°12′N 97°12′W / 71.2°N 97.2°W |
Times (UTC) | |
(P1) Partial begin | 19:37:30 |
Greatest eclipse | 21:45:39 |
(P4) Partial end | 23:51:36 |
References | |
Saros | 153 (9 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9540 |
It was the 9th eclipse of the 153rd Saros cycle, which began with a partial eclipse on July 28, 1870 and will conclude with a partial eclipse on August 22, 3114.
The center of the Moon's shadow missed the Earth, passing above the North Pole, but a partial eclipse was visible at sunrise (October 24 local time) in far eastern Russia, and before sunset (October 23) across most of North America.
Animated path |
This eclipse is a member of the 2011–2014 solar eclipse 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][Note 1]
Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
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Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
118 Partial from Tromsø, Norway |
2011 June 01 Partial (north) |
1.21300 | 123 Hinode XRT footage |
2011 November 25 Partial (south) |
−1.05359 | |
128 Middlegate, Nevada |
2012 May 20 Annular |
0.48279 | 133 Cairns, Australia |
2012 November 13 Total |
−0.37189 | |
138 Churchills Head, Australia |
2013 May 10 Annular |
−0.26937 | 143 Partial from Libreville, Gabon |
2013 November 03 Hybrid |
0.32715 | |
148 Partial from Adelaide, Australia |
2014 April 29 Annular (non-central) |
−0.99996 | 153 Partial from Minneapolis |
2014 October 23 Partial (north) |
1.09078 |
A total solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, and a partial solar eclipse of September 13, 2015 occur during the next lunar year set.
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 ascending node.
22 eclipse events between January 5, 1935 and August 11, 2018 | ||||
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January 4-5 | October 23-24 | August 10-12 | May 30-31 | March 18-19 |
111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
January 5, 1935 |
August 12, 1942 |
May 30, 1946 |
March 18, 1950 | |
121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
January 5, 1954 |
October 23, 1957 |
August 11, 1961 |
May 30, 1965 |
March 18, 1969 |
131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
January 4, 1973 |
October 23, 1976 |
August 10, 1980 |
May 30, 1984 |
March 18, 1988 |
141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
January 4, 1992 |
October 24, 1995 |
August 11, 1999 |
May 31, 2003 |
March 19, 2007 |
151 | 153 | 155 | ||
January 4, 2011 |
October 23, 2014 August 11, 2018 |