Solar eclipse of February 14, 1915


An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, February 14, 1915, with a magnitude of 0.9789. 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. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The Moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because it occurred 6.7 days after perigee and 7.1 days before apogee.
Annularity was visible from Australia, Papua in Dutch East Indies, German New Guinea, and the South Seas Mandate of Japan. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Antarctica, Australia, Oceania, and Southeast Asia.
The eclipse occurred on February 14 in the whole path of annularity, and also most of the places where a partial eclipse was visible. It was on February 13 only in a small part east of the International Date Line.
The date of this eclipse visible from Asia, February 14, was also Lunar New Year, celebrated in multiple countries.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
EventTime
First Penumbral External Contact1915 February 14 at 01:41:50.2 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1915 February 14 at 02:43:23.8 UTC
First Central Line1915 February 14 at 02:44:33.6 UTC
Greatest Duration1915 February 14 at 02:44:33.6 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1915 February 14 at 02:45:43.5 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact1915 February 14 at 03:49:42.8 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1915 February 14 at 04:22:46.6 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1915 February 14 at 04:31:05.1 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1915 February 14 at 04:33:20.0 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact1915 February 14 at 05:17:11.0 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1915 February 14 at 06:21:01.1 UTC
Last Central Line1915 February 14 at 06:22:13.8 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1915 February 14 at 06:23:26.5 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1915 February 14 at 07:25:00.5 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.97890
Eclipse Obscuration0.95825
Gamma−0.20238
Sun Right Ascension21h46m51.7s
Sun Declination-13°23'30.7"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'11.7"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension21h47m11.9s
Moon Declination-13°33'58.6"
Moon Semi-Diameter15'36.4"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°57'16.6"
ΔT17.3 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
January 31
Descending node 		February 14
Ascending node 		March 1
Descending node
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 103		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 129		Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 141

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1915

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 129

Inex

Triad