Solar eclipse of September 21, 1922
Solar eclipse of September 21, 1922 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | −0.213 |
Magnitude | 1.0678 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 359 s (5 min 59 s) |
Coordinates | 10°42′S 104°30′E / 10.7°S 104.5°E |
Max. width of band | 226 km (140 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 4:40:31 |
References | |
Saros | 133 (40 of 72) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9333 |
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, September 21, 1922, with a magnitude of 1.0678. 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. The greatest eclipse occurred exactly at perigee.
Totality started in Ethiopia, Italian Somaliland (today's Somalia), and passed British Maldives and Christmas Island in the Straits Settlements (now in Australia) in the Indian Ocean, and Australia.
Observations
Observations of the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 got results consistent with gravitational lens proposed by Einstein's general relativity. To reconfirm the result, observatories in South Australia and New South Wales each organized a large scientific expedition. A total of 20 teams went to sparsely populated Wallal on the northern coast of Western Australia. Among them, the American team from the Lick Observatory arrived in Sydney on August 5, took a train westward and arrived in Perth on August 16. The team took a ship on August 20 from Fremantle, a port southwest of Perth, to Broome, and then finally arrived at Wallal. Although not organizing any observations, the Australian government provided financial support to the teams. For example, the round-trip travel expenses between Sydney and Wallal were paid by the federal government.[1][2]
Related eclipses
Eclipses in 1922
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 13, 1922.
- An annular solar eclipse on March 28, 1922.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on April 11, 1922.
- A total solar eclipse on September 21, 1922.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on October 6, 1922.
Metonic
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 3, 1918
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1926
Tzolkinex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 10, 1915
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 1, 1929
Half-Saros
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 15, 1913
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of September 26, 1931
Tritos
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 22, 1911
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933
Solar Saros 133
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 9, 1904
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 1, 1940
Inex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 9, 1893
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 1, 1951
Triad
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 20, 1835
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009
Solar eclipses of 1921–1924
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]
The partial solar eclipse on July 31, 1924 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1921 to 1924 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
118 | April 8, 1921 Annular |
0.8869 | 123 | October 1, 1921 Total |
−0.9383 | |
128 | March 28, 1922 Annular |
0.1711 | 133 | September 21, 1922 Total |
−0.213 | |
138 | March 17, 1923 Annular |
−0.5438 | 143 | September 10, 1923 Total |
0.5149 | |
148 | March 5, 1924 Partial |
−1.2232 | 153 | August 30, 1924 Partial |
1.3123 |
Saros 133
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435 through January 13, 1526; a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544; and total eclipses from February 3, 1562 through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 25 at 1 minutes, 14 seconds on November 30, 1453, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 61 at 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[4]
Series members 34–55 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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34 | 35 | 36 |
July 17, 1814 |
July 27, 1832 |
August 7, 1850 |
37 | 38 | 39 |
August 18, 1868 |
August 29, 1886 |
September 9, 1904 |
40 | 41 | 42 |
September 21, 1922 |
October 1, 1940 |
October 12, 1958 |
43 | 44 | 45 |
October 23, 1976 |
November 3, 1994 |
November 13, 2012 |
46 | 47 | 48 |
November 25, 2030 |
December 5, 2048 |
December 17, 2066 |
49 | 50 | 51 |
December 27, 2084 |
January 8, 2103 |
January 19, 2121 |
52 | 53 | 54 |
January 30, 2139 |
February 9, 2157 |
February 21, 2175 |
55 | ||
March 3, 2193 |
References
- ^ "1922 Solar Eclipse in Australia Testing Einstein's Theory". Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^ R. R. Burman & P. M. Jeffery (1990). "Wallal - the 1922 Eclipse Expedition". Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 8 (3): 312–313. Archived from the original on 11 February 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 133". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
External links
- Fotos of Solar Corona September 21, 1922
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- 1922 Solar Eclipse in Australia
- Wallal: The 1922 Eclipse Expedition
- Photographs from the Wallal Australia expedition from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine