Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Hybrid |
Gamma | 0.473 |
Magnitude | 1.0003 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 1 s (0 min 1 s) |
Coordinates | 39°24′N 121°12′W / 39.4°N 121.2°W |
Max. width of band | 1 km (0.62 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 19:03:34 |
References | |
Saros | 137 (31 of 70) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9351 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on April 28, 1930. It is a hybrid event, starting and ending as an annular eclipse.
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.[1]
Solar eclipse series sets from 1928 to 1931 | ||||
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Ascending node | Descending node | |||
117 | May 19, 1928 Total (non-central) |
122 | November 12, 1928 Partial | |
127 | May 9, 1929 Total |
132 | November 1, 1929 Annular | |
137 | April 28, 1930 Hybrid |
142 | October 21, 1930 Total | |
147 | April 18, 1931 Partial |
152 | October 11, 1931 Partial |
It is a part of Saros cycle 142, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 17, 1624. It contains one hybrid eclipse on July 14, 1768, and total eclipses from July 25, 1786 through October 29, 2543. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on June 5, 2904. The longest duration of totality will be 6 minutes, 34 seconds on May 28, 2291. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.[2]
Series members 17–41 occur between 1901 and 2359 | ||
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17 | 18 | 19 |
October 10, 1912 |
October 21, 1930 |
November 1, 1948 |
20 | 21 | 22 |
November 12, 1966 |
November 22, 1984 |
December 4, 2002 |
23 | 24 | 25 |
December 14, 2020 |
December 26, 2038 |
January 5, 2057 |
26 | 27 | 28 |
January 16, 2075 |
January 27, 2093 |
February 8, 2111 |
29 | 30 | 31 |
February 18, 2129 |
March 2, 2147 |
March 12, 2165 |
32 | 33 | 34 |
March 23, 2183 |
April 4, 2201 |
April 15, 2219 |
35 | 36 | 37 |
April 25, 2237 |
May 7, 2255 |
May 17, 2273 |
38 | 39 | 40 |
May 28, 2291 |
June 9, 2309 |
June 20, 2327 |
41 | ||
June 30, 2345 |