Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904
| Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904 | |
|---|---|
 Map | |
| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.1299 |
| Magnitude | 0.9367 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 487 s (8 min 7 s) |
| Coordinates | 5°36′N 94°42′E / 5.6°N 94.7°E |
| Max. width of band | 237 km (147 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 5:40:44 |
| References | |
| Saros | 128 (52 of 73) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9290 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, March 17, 1904,[1][2][3][4] with a magnitude of 0.9367. 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.
The path of annularity covered southern German East Africa (now southern Tanzania), northeastern tip of Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), northern Grande Comore Island in French Comoros (now Comoros), southern British Seychelles (now Seychelles), British Mauritius (now Mauritius), most of the British Indian Ocean Territory (excluding the southern part of Diego Garcia), northwestern Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), southern Siam (now renamed as Thailand), French Indochina (the part now belonging to Cambodia, the southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including the major city Phnom Penh, now capital of Cambodia), all of the Paracel Islands, the northern tip of the American Philippines (now Philippines) and Japanese islands of Iwo Jima, South Iwo Jima and Minamitorishima.
In addition, a partial solar eclipse was seen within a much larger area, including the eastern half of Africa, southern West Asia, southern Afghanistan, South Asia except the northernmost tip of British Raj (now the northernmost tip of Pakistan), most of China except the northwest border, Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia, the extreme northern coast of Australia, northwestern Melanesia, central and western Micronesia, and southeastern Russian Empire.
Observations[edit]
N. Donitch of the Royal Russian Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of today's Russian Academy of Sciences) traveled to Phnom Penh (now capital of Cambodia) via Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) in French Indochina and made observations there. The weather was clear on the eclipse day, with only some fog in the morning. Donitch used a spectrometer and recorded changes in the temperature in about 2.5 hours, which dropped for about 3°C.[5]
Related eclipses[edit]
Eclipses in 1904[edit]
- An annular solar eclipse on March 17, 1904.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on March 31, 1904.
- A total solar eclipse on September 9, 1904.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on September 24, 1904.
Metonic[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 3, 1908
Tzolkinex[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 1, 1897
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 28, 1911
Half-Saros[edit]
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 11, 1895
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 22, 1913
Tritos[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 16, 1893
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 14, 1915
Solar Saros 128[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 5, 1886
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 28, 1922
Inex[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 6, 1875
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 24, 1933
Triad[edit]
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 16, 1817
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 15, 1991
Solar eclipses of 1902–1906[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.[6]
The partial solar eclipses on May 7, 1902 and October 31, 1902 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on July 21, 1906 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1902 to 1906 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 108 | April 8, 1902 Partial |
1.5024 | 113 | October 1, 1902 | ||
| 118 | March 29, 1903 Annular |
0.8413 | 123 | September 21, 1903 Total |
−0.8967 | |
| 128 | March 17, 1904 Annular |
0.1299 | 133 | September 9, 1904 Total |
−0.1625 | |
| 138 | March 6, 1905 Annular |
−0.5768 | 143
|
August 30, 1905 Total |
0.5708 | |
| 148 | February 23, 1906 Partial |
−1.2479 | 153 | August 20, 1906 Partial |
1.3731 | |
Saros 128[edit]
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 128, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 73 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 29, 984 AD. It contains total eclipses from May 16, 1417 through June 18, 1471; hybrid eclipses from June 28, 1489 through July 31, 1543; and annular eclipses from August 11, 1561 through July 25, 2120. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on November 1, 2282. 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 totality was produced by member 27 at 1 minutes, 45 seconds on June 7, 1453, and the longest duration of annularity was produced by member 48 at 8 minutes, 35 seconds on February 1, 1832. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[7]
| Series members 47–68 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 47 | 48 | 49 |
 January 21, 1814 |
 February 1, 1832 |
 February 12, 1850 |
| 50 | 51 | 52 |
 February 23, 1868 |
 March 5, 1886 |
March 17, 1904 |
| 53 | 54 | 55 |
 March 28, 1922 |
 April 7, 1940 |
 April 19, 1958 |
| 56 | 57 | 58 |
 April 29, 1976 |
 May 10, 1994 |
 May 20, 2012 |
| 59 | 60 | 61 |
 June 1, 2030 |
 June 11, 2048 |
 June 22, 2066 |
| 62 | 63 | 64 |
 July 3, 2084 |
 July 15, 2102 |
 July 25, 2120 |
| 65 | 66 | 67 |
 August 5, 2138 |
 August 16, 2156 |
 August 27, 2174 |
| 68 | ||
 September 6, 2192 | ||
Tritos series[edit]
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.
| Series members between 1801 and 2100 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 December 21, 1805 (Saros 119) |
 November 19, 1816 (Saros 120) |
 October 20, 1827 (Saros 121) | |
 September 18, 1838 (Saros 122) |
 August 18, 1849 (Saros 123) |
 July 18, 1860 (Saros 124) | |
 June 18, 1871 (Saros 125) |
 May 17, 1882 (Saros 126) |
 April 16, 1893 (Saros 127) | |
March 17, 1904 (Saros 128) |
 February 14, 1915 (Saros 129) |
 January 14, 1926 (Saros 130) | |
 December 13, 1936 (Saros 131) |
 November 12, 1947 (Saros 132) |
 October 12, 1958 (Saros 133) | |
 September 11, 1969 (Saros 134) |
 August 10, 1980 (Saros 135) |
 July 11, 1991 (Saros 136) | |
 June 10, 2002 (Saros 137) |
 May 10, 2013 (Saros 138) |
 April 8, 2024 (Saros 139) | |
 March 9, 2035 (Saros 140) |
 February 5, 2046 (Saros 141) |
 January 5, 2057 (Saros 142) | |
 December 6, 2067 (Saros 143) |
 November 4, 2078 (Saros 144) |
 October 4, 2089 (Saros 145) | |
 September 4, 2100 (Saros 146) |
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In the 22nd century:
- Solar saros 147: annular solar eclipse of August 4, 2111
- Solar saros 148: total solar eclipse of July 4, 2122
- Solar saros 149: total solar eclipse of June 3, 2133
- Solar saros 150: annular solar eclipse of May 3, 2144
- Solar saros 151: annular solar eclipse of April 2, 2155
- Solar saros 152: total solar eclipse of March 2, 2166
- Solar saros 153: annular solar eclipse of January 29, 2177
- Solar saros 154: annular solar eclipse of December 29, 2187
- Solar saros 155: total solar eclipse of November 28, 2198
In the 23rd century:
- Solar saros 156: annular solar eclipse of October 29, 2209
- Solar saros 157: annular solar eclipse of September 27, 2220
- Solar saros 158: total solar eclipse of August 28, 2231
- Solar saros 159: partial solar eclipse of July 28, 2242
- Solar saros 160: partial solar eclipse of June 26, 2253
- Solar saros 161: partial solar eclipse of May 26, 2264
- Solar saros 162: partial solar eclipse of April 26, 2275
- Solar saros 163: partial solar eclipse of March 25, 2286
- Solar saros 164: partial solar eclipse of February 22, 2297
Notes[edit]
- ^ "THIS ECLIPSE SKIPS AMERICUS". Americus Times-Recorder. Americus, Georgia. 1904-03-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "An eclipse of the sun". The Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri. 1904-03-17. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "ERIN GO BRAUGH". The Daily Journal. Freeport, Illinois. 1904-03-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Sun to be eclipsed today". The Brunswick News. Brunswick, Georgia. 1904-03-17. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Donitch, N. (1905). "On the observation of the Annular Solar eclipse in Indo-China on 16 march 1904". Izv. Russ.Astron.Ob-va (8/9): 276–279. Archived from the original on 29 August 2019.
- ^ 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 128". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References[edit]
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Russia expedition for solar eclipse of March 17, 1904
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