Solar eclipse of April 17, 1912
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Hybrid
Gamma	0.528
Magnitude	1.0003
Maximum eclipse
Duration	2 s (0 min 2 s)
Coordinates	38°24′N 11°18′W / 38.4°N 11.3°W / 38.4; -11.3
Max. width of band	1 km (0.62 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	11:34:22
References
Saros	137 (30 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9308

A total solar eclipse occurred on April 17, 1912. It is a hybrid event, starting and ending as an annular eclipse, with only a small portion of totality. Totality was visible over the sea between Spain and France, with annularity continued northeast across Europe and Asia.

This eclipse occurred two days after the Titanic sunk in the northwestern Atlantic ocean under the darkness of new moon.^[1]

Observations

The Observatory of Paris had the Globule balloon aloft for the 17 April 1912 hybrid eclipse by Camille Flammarion.^[2]

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1910-1913

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1910 to 1913
Ascending node			Descending node
117	May 9, 1910 Total		122	November 2, 1910 Partial
127	April 28, 1911 Total		132	October 22, 1911 Annular
137	April 17, 1912 Hybrid		142	October 10, 1912 Total
147	April 6, 1913 Partial		152	September 30, 1913 Partial