Solar eclipse of May 18, 1920

A partial solar eclipse occurred on May 18, 1920. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Solar eclipse of May 18, 1920
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma−1.0239
Magnitude0.9734
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates69.1°S 107.7°E / -69.1; 107.7
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse6:14:55
References
Saros146 (22 of 76)
Catalog # (SE5000)9328

Solar eclipses 1916–1920

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 1916–1920
Ascending node   Descending node
111December 24, 1916

Partial		 116June 19, 1917

Partial
121December 14, 1917

Annular		 126June 8, 1918

Total
131December 3, 1918

Annular		 136May 29, 1919

Total
141November 22, 1919

Annular		 146May 18, 1920

Partial
151November 10, 1920

Partial

Saros 146

It is a part of Saros cycle 146, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 76 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on September 19, 1541. It contains total eclipses from May 29, 1938 through October 7, 2154, hybrid eclipses from October 17, 2172 through November 20, 2226, and annular eclipses from December 1, 2244 through August 10, 2659. The series ends at member 76 as a partial eclipse on December 29, 2893. The longest duration of totality was 5 minutes, 21 seconds on June 30, 1992.

Notes
  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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