An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, June 28, 1908, with a magnitude of 0.9655. 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 days before apogee (on July 2, 1908, at 16:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
The annular eclipse was visible in North America, including a part of central Mexico around Mexico City; Orlando; and Daytona Beach, Florida in the United States. In Africa, it included Rosso, Mauritania, the northernmost part of Senegal, Bamako and the southwestern French Sudan (now Mali), the southwesternmost part of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and northern British Gold Coast (now Ghana). A partial eclipse was visible for parts of northern South America, most of North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, North 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.
+June 28, 1908 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1908 June 28 at 13:29:11.1 UTC First Umbral External Contact 1908 June 28 at 14:33:04.2 UTC First Central Line 1908 June 28 at 14:34:43.5 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 1908 June 28 at 14:36:22.8 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 1908 June 28 at 15:41:23.7 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1908 June 28 at 16:29:51.0 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1908 June 28 at 16:30:40.3 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1908 June 28 at 16:31:28.2 UTC Greatest Duration 1908 June 28 at 16:37:12.6 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 1908 June 28 at 17:18:16.1 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 1908 June 28 at 18:23:16.9 UTC Last Central Line 1908 June 28 at 18:24:58.5 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 1908 June 28 at 18:26:40.0 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1908 June 28 at 19:30:35.4 UTC
+June 28, 1908 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.96548 Eclipse Obscuration 0.93215 Gamma 0.13895 Sun Right Ascension 06h28m25.7s Sun Declination +23°17'24.0" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'43.8" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.6" Moon Right Ascension 06h28m24.0s Moon Declination +23°24'59.9" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'57.6" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'54.1" ΔT 8.4 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 June–July 1908 June 14Descending node (full moon) June 28Ascending node (new moon) July 13Descending node (full moon) Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 109 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 135 Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 147
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1908 A total solar eclipse on January 3. A penumbral lunar eclipse on January 18. A penumbral lunar eclipse on June 14. An annular solar eclipse on June 28. A penumbral lunar eclipse on July 13. A penumbral lunar eclipse on December 7. A hybrid solar eclipse on December 23.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 9, 1904 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 17, 1912
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 18, 1901 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 10, 1915
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of June 23, 1899 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of July 4, 1917
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 29, 1897 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919
Solar Saros 135 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 17, 1890 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 9, 1926
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 19, 1879 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 8, 1937
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 27, 1821 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 29, 1995
Solar eclipses of 1906–1909
Saros 135
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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