A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of the orbit on September 11, 2007.
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 September 11, 2007 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Partial |
Gamma | −1.1255 |
Magnitude | 0.7507 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Coordinates | 61°00′S 90°12′W / 61°S 90.2°W |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 12:32:24 |
References | |
Saros | 154 (6 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9524 |
This is the second eclipse this season, the first being the August 2007 lunar eclipse.
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.
Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
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Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
119 | 2004 April 19 Partial (south) | −1.13345 | 124 | 2004 October 14 Partial (north) | 1.03481 | |
129 Partial from Naiguatá | 2005 April 08 Hybrid | −0.34733 | 134 Annular from Madrid, Spain | 2005 October 03 Annular | 0.33058 | |
139 Total from Side, Turkey | 2006 March 29 Total | 0.38433 | 144 Partial from São Paulo, Brazil | 2006 September 22 Annular | −0.40624 | |
149 From Jaipur, India | 2007 March 19 Partial (north) | 1.07277 | 154 From Córdoba, Argentina | 2007 September 11 Partial (south) | −1.12552 |
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011. | ||||
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September 11-12 | June 30-July 1 | April 17-19 | February 4-5 | November 22-23 |
114 | 116 | 118 | 120 | 122 |
September 12, 1931 | June 30, 1935 | April 19, 1939 | February 4, 1943 | November 23, 1946 |
124 | 126 | 128 | 130 | 132 |
September 12, 1950 | June 30, 1954 | April 19, 1958 | February 5, 1962 | November 23, 1965 |
134 | 136 | 138 | 140 | 142 |
September 11, 1969 | June 30, 1973 | April 18, 1977 | February 4, 1981 | November 22, 1984 |
144 | 146 | 148 | 150 | 152 |
September 11, 1988 | June 30, 1992 | April 17, 1996 | February 5, 2000 | November 23, 2003 |
154 | 156 | |||
September 11, 2007 | July 1, 2011 |
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