Solar eclipse of November 1, 1948
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma−0.3517
Magnitude1.0231
Maximum eclipse
Duration116 s (1 min 56 s)
Coordinates33°06′S 76°12′E / 33.1°S 76.2°E / -33.1; 76.2
Max. width of band84 km (52 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse5:59:18
References
Saros142 (19 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)9395

A total solar eclipse occurred on November 1, 1948. 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 Belgian Congo (today's DR Congo), Uganda Protectorate (today's Uganda) including the capital city Kampala, British Kenya (today's Kenya) including the capital city Nairobi, British Seychelles (today's Seychelles), and British Mauritius (today's Mauritius). During this eclipse, comet C/1948 V1, also known as the Eclipse Comet of 1948, was discovered shining near the Sun.[1]

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1946–1949

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.[2]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1946–1949
Ascending node   Descending node
117 1946 May 30

Partial 		122 1946 November 23

Partial
127 1947 May 20

Total 		132 1947 November 12

Annular
137 1948 May 9

Annular 		142 1948 November 1

Total
147 1949 April 28

Partial 		152 1949 October 21

Partial

Saros series 142

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.[3]

Series members 17–41 occur between 1901 and 2359
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

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.

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.

Notes

  1. ^ Bortle, John E. "The Bright-Comet Chronicles". International Comet Quarterly. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros142.html

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