An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Friday, November 1, 1929, with a magnitude of 0.9649. 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 6 days before apogee (on November 7, 1929, at 11:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
Annularity was visible from Spanish Sahara (today's West Sahara), French West Africa (parts now belonging to Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, and the southwestern tip of Benin), British Gold Coast (today's Ghana), French Togoland (today's Togo) including capital Lomé, Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe (today's São Tomé and Príncipe), French Equatorial Africa (parts now belonging to Gabon and R. Congo) including capital Brazzaville, Belgian Congo (today's DR Congo) including capital Léopoldville, Northern Rhodesia (today's Zambia), British Tanganyika (now belonging to Tanzania) including capital Dar es Salaam, and British Seychelles (today's Seychelles) including capital Victoria. A partial eclipse was visible for most of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
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 1, 1929 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1929 November 1 at 09:12:50.4 UTC First Umbral External Contact 1929 November 1 at 10:17:25.7 UTC First Central Line 1929 November 1 at 10:19:08.2 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 1929 November 1 at 10:20:50.9 UTC First Penumbral Internal Contact 1929 November 1 at 11:35:47.0 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1929 November 1 at 11:47:03.1 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1929 November 1 at 12:01:11.0 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1929 November 1 at 12:05:09.8 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 1929 November 1 at 12:34:57.3 UTC Greatest Duration 1929 November 1 at 12:41:12.0 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 1929 November 1 at 13:49:37.9 UTC Last Central Line 1929 November 1 at 13:51:23.5 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 1929 November 1 at 13:53:08.8 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1929 November 1 at 14:57:43.0 UTC
+November 1, 1929 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.96489 Eclipse Obscuration 0.93100 Gamma 0.35138 Sun Right Ascension 14h24m49.9s Sun Declination -14°22'20.5" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'07.1" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.9" Moon Right Ascension 14h25m23.5s Moon Declination -14°04'23.5" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'19.6" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°56'14.9" ΔT 24.0 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 1929 November 1Descending node (new moon) November 17Ascending node (full moon) Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 132 Penumbral lunar eclipseLunar Saros 144
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1929 A total solar eclipse on May 9. A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 23. An annular solar eclipse on November 1. A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 17.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 14, 1926 Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 21, 1922 Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 13, 1936
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 27, 1920 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 7, 1938
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 3, 1918 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 1, 1940
Solar Saros 132 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 22, 1911 Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 12, 1947
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 22, 1900 Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 12, 1958
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 31, 1842 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 1, 2016
Solar eclipses of 1928–1931
Saros 132
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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