Solar eclipse of March 29, 1903

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29, 1903, with a magnitude of 0.9767. 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 apogee and 7.8 days before perigee.
Annularity was visible from China, Russia on March 29, and Northern Canada on March 28. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia, North Asia, Alaska, and Northwestern North America.

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	1903 March 28 at 23:09:08.3 UTC
First Umbral External Contact	1903 March 29 at 00:33:20.8 UTC
First Central Line	1903 March 29 at 00:35:13.8 UTC
Greatest Duration	1903 March 29 at 00:35:13.8 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact	1903 March 29 at 00:37:09.4 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	1903 March 29 at 01:26:01.9 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	1903 March 29 at 01:35:22.9 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	1903 March 29 at 02:05:13.3 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact	1903 March 29 at 02:33:17.3 UTC
Last Central Line	1903 March 29 at 02:35:10.0 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact	1903 March 29 at 02:37:00.1 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	1903 March 29 at 04:01:17.3 UTC

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	0.97669
Eclipse Obscuration	0.95392
Gamma	0.84126
Sun Right Ascension	00h26m26.0s
Sun Declination	+02°51'27.8"
Sun Semi-Diameter	16'01.0"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.8"
Moon Right Ascension	00h25m28.1s
Moon Declination	+03°37'00.1"
Moon Semi-Diameter	15'30.9"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°56'56.5"
ΔT	1.5 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.