Solar eclipse of June 17, 1909

A hybrid solar eclipse occurred on June 17, 1909. 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. This event was a hybrid, starting and ending as an annular eclipse.

Solar eclipse of June 17, 1909
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureHybrid
Gamma0.8957
Magnitude1.0065
Maximum eclipse
Duration24 sec (0 m 24 s)
Coordinates82.9°N 123.6°E / 82.9; 123.6
Max. width of band51 km (32 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse23:18:38
References
Saros145 (16 of 77)
Catalog # (SE5000)9302

The path of totality crossed central Russia, the Arctic Ocean, northeastern Ellesmere Island in Canada, Greenland, and annularity crossed southern Siberia in Russia (now in northeastern Kazakhstan and southern Russia) and southern Greenland.

Solar eclipses 1906–1909

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 1906–1909
Ascending node   Descending node
115July 21, 1906

Partial		 120January 14, 1907

Total
125July 10, 1907

Annular		 130January 3, 1908

Total
135June 28, 1908

Annular		 140December 23, 1908

Hybrid
145June 17, 1909

Hybrid		 150December 12, 1909

Partial
  1. 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.
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