Solar eclipse of November 22, 1919


An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Saturday, November 22, 1919, with a magnitude of 0.9198. 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 only 11 hours before apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
The duration of annularity at maximum eclipse was 11 minutes, 36.56 seconds in the Atlantic Ocean north of Brazil. It was the longest annular solar eclipse since January 5, 1647, but the Solar eclipse of December 2, 1937 lasted longer.
Places inside the annular eclipse included North America and the Caribbean, including Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Galveston, Texas in the United States and the northern tip of Coahuila, Mexico at around 7:30 CT, more than a quarter of the Gulf of Mexico and close to the Florida Keys in the United States which occurred before 8:45 ET, it also included Cuba, most of Haiti and the southwesternmost Dominican Republic, it was almost near Venezuela and it included Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados which happened in the mid morning hours. The greatest eclipse occurred at 15:14:12 UTC. In Africa, it included the Gambia, southern Senegal including Casamance, Portuguese Guinea, the northern part of French Guinea which occurred before 15:45 and southeasternmost Mauritania and the middle portion of the French Sudan which included Bamako and Timbuktu, it occurred in the late afternoon before sunset at 17:00 UTC. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of North America, the Caribbean, northern South America, West Africa, and Western Europe.

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 Contact1919 November 22 at 12:14:34.5 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1919 November 22 at 13:24:24.6 UTC
First Central Line1919 November 22 at 13:28:08.9 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1919 November 22 at 13:31:54.8 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1919 November 22 at 15:07:48.2 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1919 November 22 at 15:14:11.5 UTC
Greatest Duration1919 November 22 at 15:18:47.7 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1919 November 22 at 15:19:40.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1919 November 22 at 16:56:32.6 UTC
Last Central Line1919 November 22 at 17:00:18.7 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1919 November 22 at 17:04:03.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1919 November 22 at 18:13:52.1 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.91976
Eclipse Obscuration0.84597
Gamma0.45492
Sun Right Ascension15h48m15.3s
Sun Declination-20°00'09.7"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'11.7"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension15h48m27.5s
Moon Declination-19°35'51.4"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'41.9"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°53'56.7"
ΔT21.1 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.
November 7
Descending node 		November 22
Ascending node
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 115		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 141

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1919

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

  • Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 17, 1910
  • Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 27, 1928

Tritos

Solar Saros 141

Inex

Triad