Solar eclipse of April 19, 1939

Solar eclipse of April 19, 1939
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.9388
Magnitude	0.9731
Maximum eclipse
Duration	109 s (1 min 49 s)
Coordinates	73.1°N 129.1°W / 73.1; -129.1
Max. width of band	285 km (177 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	16:45:53
References
Saros	118 (64 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9373

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 19, 1939. 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.

This annular eclipse is notable in that the path of annularity passed over the North Pole.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1939-1942

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.

The partial solar eclipse on August 12, 1942 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1939 to 1942
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
118	April 19, 1939 Annular	0.9388		123	October 12, 1939 Total	−0.9737
128	April 7, 1940 Annular	0.219		133	October 1, 1940 Total	−0.2573
138	March 27, 1941 Annular	−0.5025		143	September 21, 1941 Total	0.4649
148	March 16, 1942 Partial	−1.1908		153	September 10, 1942 Partial	1.2571

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements