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 (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring only 11 hours before apogee (on November 23, 1919, at 2:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
The duration of annularity at maximum eclipse (closest to but slightly shorter than the longest duration) 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 (13:30 UTC), 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 (13:45 UTC), 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 (now Guinea-Bissau), the northern part of French Guinea (now Guinea) which occurred before 15:45 (16:45 UTC) and southeasternmost Mauritania and the middle portion of the French Sudan (now Mali) 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.
+November 22, 1919 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1919 November 22 at 12:14:34.5 UTC First Umbral External Contact 1919 November 22 at 13:24:24.6 UTC First Central Line 1919 November 22 at 13:28:08.9 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 1919 November 22 at 13:31:54.8 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1919 November 22 at 15:07:48.2 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1919 November 22 at 15:14:11.5 UTC Greatest Duration 1919 November 22 at 15:18:47.7 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1919 November 22 at 15:19:40.7 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 1919 November 22 at 16:56:32.6 UTC Last Central Line 1919 November 22 at 17:00:18.7 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 1919 November 22 at 17:04:03.2 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1919 November 22 at 18:13:52.1 UTC
+November 22, 1919 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.91976 Eclipse Obscuration 0.84597 Gamma 0.45492 Sun Right Ascension 15h48m15.3s Sun Declination -20°00'09.7" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'11.7" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 15h48m27.5s Moon Declination -19°35'51.4" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'41.9" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°53'56.7" ΔT 21.1 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 November 1919 November 7Descending node (full moon) November 22Ascending node (new moon) Partial lunar eclipseLunar Saros 115 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 141
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1919 A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 15. A total solar eclipse on May 29. A partial lunar eclipse on November 7. An annular solar eclipse on November 22.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 3, 1916 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 10, 1923
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 10, 1912 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 3, 1927
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of November 17, 1910 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 27, 1928
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 23, 1908 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 21, 1930
Solar Saros 141 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 11, 1901 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 2, 1937
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 12, 1890 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 1, 1948
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 20, 1833 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006
Solar eclipses of 1916–1920
Saros 141
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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