Solar eclipse of August 30, 1905
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.5708
Magnitude1.0477
Maximum eclipse
Duration226 sec (3 m 46 s)
Coordinates42°30′N 4°18′W / 42.5°N 4.3°W / 42.5; -4.3
Max. width of band192 km (119 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse13:07:26
References
Saros143 (17 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)9293

A total solar eclipse occurred on August 30, 1905.[1][2][3] 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. Totality was visible from Canada, Newfoundland Colony (now belonging to Canada), Spain, French Algeria (now Algeria), French Tunisia (now Tunisia), Ottoman Tripolitania (now Libya) include the capital Tripoli, Egypt, Ottoman Empire (the parts now belonging to Saudi Arabia) including Mecca, Emirate of Jabal Shammar (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), Aden Protectorate (now belonging to Yemen), and Muscat and Oman (now Oman).

This eclipse was observed from Alcalà de Xivert in Spain.[4] It was also observed by members of the British Astronomical Association from various locations.[5][6]

Solar eclipses of 1902–1907

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.[7]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1902–1907
Descending node   Ascending node
108April 8, 1902

Partial		 113October 1, 1902
118March 29, 1903

Annular		 123September 21, 1903

Total
128March 17, 1904

Annular		 133September 9, 1904

Total
138March 6, 1905

Annular		 143August 30, 1905

Total
148February 23, 1906

Partial		 153August 20, 1906

Partial

Solar 143

It is a part of Saros cycle 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617 and total event from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995. It has hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067, and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2873. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.

Series members 17–28 occur between 1741 and 2100
8 9 10

May 23, 1743
June 3, 1761
June 14, 1779
11 12 13

June 24, 1797
July 6, 1815
July 17, 1833
14 15 16

July 28, 1851
August 7, 1869
August 19, 1887
17 18 19

August 30, 1905
September 10, 1923
September 21, 1941
20 21 22

October 2, 1959
October 12, 1977
October 24, 1995
23 24 25

November 3, 2013
November 14, 2031
November 25, 2049
26 27 28

December 6, 2067
December 16, 2085

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings. In the 19th century:

  • Solar saros 140: total solar eclipse of October 29, 1818
  • Solar saros 141: annular solar eclipse of October 9, 1847
  • Solar saros 142: total solar eclipse of September 17, 1876

In the 22nd century:

  • Solar saros 150: partial solar eclipse of April 11, 2108
  • Solar saros 151: annular solar eclipse of March 21, 2137
  • Solar saros 152: total solar eclipse of March 2, 2166
  • Solar saros 153: annular solar eclipse of February 10, 2195

Notes

  1. ↑ "The Coming Total Solar Eclipse Of Sun". The Brantford Weekly Expositor. Brantford, Ontario, Canada. August 31, 1905. p. 12. Retrieved October 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "OBSERVERS' SUCCESS. DETAILS OF THE ECLIPSE FROM SOUTHERN STATIONS". Evening Standard. London, Greater London, England. August 31, 1905. p. 12. Retrieved October 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "OLD SOL'S TOTAL ECLIPSE". The Sabetha Republican-Herald. Sabetha, Kansas. August 31, 1905. p. 6. Retrieved October 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Eclipse solaire de 1905 à Perpignan, 20 March 2015
  5. ↑ British Astronomical Association; Levander, Frederick William (1906). The total solar eclipse 1905 : Reports of observations made by members of the British Astronomical Association of the total solar eclipse of 1905, August 30. University of California Libraries. London : British Astronomical Association.
  6. ↑ "Page 8". The Guardian. London, Greater London, England. August 31, 1905. p. 8. Retrieved October 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved October 6, 2018.

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