A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Wednesday, May 7 and Thursday, May 8, 1902, with a magnitude of 0.8593. 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. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Eastern Oceania.
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.
+May 7, 1902 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1902 May 7 at 20:42:22.9 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1902 May 7 at 22:12:11.6 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1902 May 7 at 22:34:16.0 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1902 May 7 at 22:45:02.7 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1902 May 8 at 00:26:17.3 UTC
+May 7, 1902 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.85935 Eclipse Obscuration 0.83335 Gamma −1.08306 Sun Right Ascension 02h55m45.5s Sun Declination +16°45'05.4" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'50.6" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 02h56m38.5s Moon Declination +15°40'22.1" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'38.0" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'02.8" ΔT 0.4 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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
+ Eclipse season of April–May 1902 April 8Descending node (new moon) April 22Ascending node (full moon) May 7Descending node (new moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 108 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 120 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 146
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1902 A partial solar eclipse on April 8. A total lunar eclipse on April 22. A partial solar eclipse on May 7. A total lunar eclipse on October 17. A partial solar eclipse on October 31.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 18, 1898 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 23, 1906
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 26, 1895 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 17, 1909
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 30, 1893 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 13, 1911
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 6, 1891 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 6, 1913
Solar Saros 146 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 25, 1884 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 18, 1920
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 26, 1873 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 18, 1931
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 6, 1815 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 7, 1989
Solar eclipses of 1898–1902
Saros 146
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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