20th-century annular solar eclipse
An annular
solar eclipse
occurred on Saturday, November 22, 1919. 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 occurred in over half of
North America
, much of
South America
, a part of Western
Europe
and about a third of
Africa
.
Places inside the annular eclipse included North America and the Caribbean, including
Austin
,
San Antonio
,
Houston
and
Galveston
, Texas in the United States and was close to
Mexico
at around 7:30 CT (13:30 UTC), more than a quarter of the
Gulf of Mexico
and close to the
Florida Keys
in the United States which occurred before 8:45 ET (13:45 UTC), it also included
Cuba
, most of
Haiti
and the southwesternmost
Dominican Republic
, it was almost near
Venezuela
and it included
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
and
Barbados
which happened in the mid morning hours. The greatest eclipse occurred at 15:14:12 UTC. In Africa, it included the
Gambia
, southern Senegal including
Casamance
,
Portuguese Guinea
(now
Guinea-Bissau
), the northern part of French Guinea (now
Guinea
) which occurred before 15:45 (16:45 UTC) and southeasternmost
Mauritania
and the middle portion of the
French Sudan
(now
Mali
) which included
Bamako
and
Timbuktu
, it occurred in the late afternoon before sunset at 17:00 UTC.
The duration of annularity at maximum eclipse (closest to but slightly shorter than the longest duration) was 11 minutes, 36.56 seconds in the
Atlantic Ocean
north of
Brazil
. It was the longest annular solar eclipse since January 5, 1647, but the
Solar eclipse of December 2, 1937
lasted longer.
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Related eclipses
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Solar eclipses 1916?1920
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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.
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Saros 141
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Solar saros 141
, repeating every about 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, contains 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains 41 annular eclipses from August 4, 1739, to October 14, 2460. There are no total eclipses in this series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. The longest annular eclipse occurred on December 14, 1955, with maximum duration of annularity at 12 minutes and 9 seconds. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node.
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Series members 17?36 occur between 1901 and 2259
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17
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18
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19
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/SE1901Nov11A.png/150px-SE1901Nov11A.png) November 11, 1901
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/SE1919Nov22A.png/150px-SE1919Nov22A.png) November 22, 1919
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/SE1937Dec02A.png/150px-SE1937Dec02A.png) December 2, 1937
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20
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21
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22
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/SE1955Dec14A.png/150px-SE1955Dec14A.png) December 14, 1955
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/SE1973Dec24A.png/150px-SE1973Dec24A.png) December 24, 1973
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/SE1992Jan04A.png/150px-SE1992Jan04A.png) January 4, 1992
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23
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24
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25
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/SE2010Jan15A.png/150px-SE2010Jan15A.png) January 15, 2010
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/SE2028Jan26A.png/150px-SE2028Jan26A.png) January 26, 2028
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/SE2046Feb05A.png/150px-SE2046Feb05A.png) February 5, 2046
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26
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27
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28
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/SE2064Feb17A.png/150px-SE2064Feb17A.png) February 17, 2064
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/SE2082Feb27A.png/150px-SE2082Feb27A.png) February 27, 2082
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/SE2100Mar10A.png/150px-SE2100Mar10A.png) March 10, 2100
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29
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30
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31
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/SE2118Mar22A.png/150px-SE2118Mar22A.png) March 22, 2118
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/SE2136Apr01A.png/150px-SE2136Apr01A.png) April 1, 2136
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/SE2154Apr12A.png/150px-SE2154Apr12A.png) April 12, 2154
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32
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33
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34
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/SE2172Apr23A.png/150px-SE2172Apr23A.png) April 23, 2172
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/SE2190May04A.png/150px-SE2190May04A.png) May 4, 2190
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/SE2208May15A.png/150px-SE2208May15A.png) May 15, 2208
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35
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36
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/SE2226May27A.png/150px-SE2226May27A.png) May 27, 2226
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/SE2244Jun06A.png/150px-SE2244Jun06A.png) June 6, 2244
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Inex series
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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.
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References
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