Solar eclipse of November 11, 1901


An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, November 11, 1901, with a magnitude of 0.9216. 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 4.5 hours before apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
Annularity was visible from the Italian island Sicily, the whole British Malta, Ottoman Tripolitania, Egypt, Ottoman Empire, Emirate of Jabal Shammar, Aden Protectorate, Muscat and Oman, British Raj, British Ceylon, Siam, French Indochina, Bombay Reef in the Paracel Islands, and Philippines. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of North Africa, East Africa, most of Asia, and Northern Australia.

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 Contact1901 November 11 at 04:29:38.4 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1901 November 11 at 05:39:58.5 UTC
First Central Line1901 November 11 at 05:43:40.3 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1901 November 11 at 05:47:24.1 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1901 November 11 at 07:17:59.6 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1901 November 11 at 07:28:20.9 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1901 November 11 at 07:34:04.9 UTC
Greatest Duration1901 November 11 at 07:34:34.5 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1901 November 11 at 09:09:25.3 UTC
Last Central Line1901 November 11 at 09:13:09.0 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1901 November 11 at 09:16:50.9 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1901 November 11 at 10:27:08.6 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.92156
Eclipse Obscuration0.84926
Gamma0.47576
Sun Right Ascension15h03m02.2s
Sun Declination-17°15'48.8"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'09.6"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension15h03m21.4s
Moon Declination-16°50'38.2"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'41.8"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°53'56.3"
ΔT-0.3 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.
October 27
Descending node 		November 11
Ascending node
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 115		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 141

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1901

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 141

Inex

Triad