Solar eclipse of February 25, 1914

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Tuesday, February 24 and Wednesday, February 25, 1914, with a magnitude of 0.9248. 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. Occurring about 3.3 days before apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
It took place almost entirely over the Southern Ocean, near Antarctica; at its widest, the shadow cast by the moon was wide. As a result, it could be seen from small patches of land, most notably southern Patagonia and part of New Zealand. Due to this limited visibility, the Star-Gazette of Elmira said that for readers in the United States it was "not particularly interesting from a popular perspective"; the Salina Daily Union in Salina, Kansas said that "you perhaps didn't notice it". It was the first of four eclipses that occurred during the year 1914. While its path passed over New Zealand, and some attempted to view it in Wellington, it was reported to not have been visible there due to cloud cover.

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.

Event	Time
First Penumbral External Contact	1914 February 24 at 21:45:44.8 UTC
First Umbral External Contact	1914 February 24 at 23:26:46.2 UTC
First Central Line	1914 February 24 at 23:34:33.5 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact	1914 February 24 at 23:44:06.5 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	1914 February 24 at 23:16:07.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	1914 February 25 at 00:02:02.3 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	1914 February 25 at 00:13:01.0 UTC
Greatest Duration	1914 February 25 at 00:13:07.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact	1914 February 25 at 00:42:30.0 UTC
Last Central Line	1914 February 25 at 00:52:04.0 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact	1914 February 25 at 00:59:52.3 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	1914 February 25 at 02:40:43.4 UTC

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	0.92478
Eclipse Obscuration	0.85522
Gamma	−0.94158
Sun Right Ascension	22h29m29.1s
Sun Declination	-09°28'36.0"
Sun Semi-Diameter	16'09.3"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.9"
Moon Right Ascension	22h31m04.3s
Moon Declination	-10°14'09.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter	14'52.3"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°54'34.6"
ΔT	16.2 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.