Solar eclipse of February 25, 1914
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma−0.9416
Magnitude0.9248
Maximum eclipse
Duration335 sec (5 m 35 s)
Coordinates62°06′S 113°18′W / 62.1°S 113.3°W / -62.1; -113.3
Max. width of band839 km (521 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse0:13:01
References
Saros119 (60 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9313

An annular solar eclipse occurred on February 25, 1914.[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.

It took place almost entirely over the Southern Ocean, near Antarctica;[1] at its widest, the shadow cast by the moon was 167 mi (269 km) wide.[1] As a result, it could be seen from small patches of land, most notably southern Patagonia and part of New Zealand.[1][2][3] Due to this limited visibility, the Star-Gazette of Elmira said that for readers in the United States it was "not particularly interesting from a popular perspective";[4] the Salina Daily Union in Salina, Kansas said that "you perhaps didn't notice it".[5] It was the first of four eclipses that occurred during the year 1914.[2][3] While its path passed over New Zealand, and some attempted to view it in Wellington, it was reported to not have been visible there due to cloud cover.[6][7]

Solar eclipses of 1913–1917

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.[8]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1913–1917
Descending node   Ascending node
114August 31, 1913

Partial		 119February 25, 1914

Annular
124August 21, 1914

Total		 129February 14, 1915

Annular
134August 10, 1915

Annular		 139February 3, 1916

Total
144July 30, 1916

Annular		 149January 23, 1917

Partial
154July 19, 1917

Partial

Saros 119

It is a part of Saros cycle 119, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 15, 850 AD. It contains total eclipses on August 9, 994 AD and August 20, 1012 with a hybrid eclipse on August 31, 1030. It has annular eclipses from September 10, 1048 through March 18, 1950. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on June 24, 2112. The longest duration of totality was only 32 seconds on August 20, 1012. The longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 37 seconds on September 1, 1625. The longest duration of hybridity was only 18 seconds on August 31, 1030.

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Metonic series

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).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ECLIPSES OF 1914". The Washington Herald. Washington, District of Columbia. 1914-02-26. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "AN ECLIPSE OF SUN TOMORROW". The Butte Daily Post. Butte, Montana. 1914-02-23. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 "Down in Patagonia and the Southeastern Coast of New Zealant Annular Eclipse of the Sun Is Visible". The Missoula Sentinel. Missoula, Montana. 1914-02-25. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Moon Eclipses Sun Is Not Visible Here". Star-Gazette. Elmira, New York. 1914-02-23. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". The Salina Daily Union. Salina, Kansas. 1914-02-25. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia. 1914-02-26. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Clouds obscure eclipse". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 1914-02-26. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ 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.
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