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 (ring). 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 (on November 11, 1901, at 12:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
Annularity was visible from the Italian island Sicily, the whole British Malta (now Malta), Ottoman Tripolitania (now Libya), Egypt, Ottoman Empire (parts now belonging to Cretan State in Greece, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia), Emirate of Jabal Shammar (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), Aden Protectorate (now belonging to Yemen), Muscat and Oman (now Oman), British Raj (the parts now belonging to India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Myanmar), British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Siam (name changed to Thailand later), French Indochina (the parts now belonging to Cambodia, southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including Phnom Penh), 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.
+November 11, 1901 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1901 November 11 at 04:29:38.4 UTC First Umbral External Contact 1901 November 11 at 05:39:58.5 UTC First Central Line 1901 November 11 at 05:43:40.3 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 1901 November 11 at 05:47:24.1 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1901 November 11 at 07:17:59.6 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1901 November 11 at 07:28:20.9 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1901 November 11 at 07:34:04.9 UTC Greatest Duration 1901 November 11 at 07:34:34.5 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 1901 November 11 at 09:09:25.3 UTC Last Central Line 1901 November 11 at 09:13:09.0 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 1901 November 11 at 09:16:50.9 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1901 November 11 at 10:27:08.6 UTC
+November 11, 1901 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.92156 Eclipse Obscuration 0.84926 Gamma 0.47576 Sun Right Ascension 15h03m02.2s Sun Declination -17°15'48.8" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'09.6" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 15h03m21.4s Moon Declination -16°50'38.2" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'41.8" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°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 (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) 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.
+ Eclipse season of October–November 1901 October 27Descending node (full moon) November 11Ascending node (new moon) Partial lunar eclipseLunar Saros 115 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 141
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1901 A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 3. A total solar eclipse on May 18. A partial lunar eclipse on October 27. An annular solar eclipse on November 11.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 22, 1898 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 30, 1905
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 29, 1894 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 23, 1908
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 4, 1892 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 17, 1910
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 12, 1890 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 10, 1912
Solar Saros 141 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 30, 1883 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 22, 1919
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 30, 1872 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 21, 1930
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 10, 1815 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 11, 1988
Solar eclipses of 1898–1902
Saros 141
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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