A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Wednesday, August 12, 1942, with a magnitude of 0.0561. 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 Antarctica. This was the last of 72 solar eclipses in Solar Saros 115.
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.
+August 12, 1942 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1942 August 12 at 02:08:33.6 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1942 August 12 at 02:28:04.4 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1942 August 12 at 02:45:11.6 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1942 August 12 at 03:21:27.7 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1942 August 12 at 03:24:16.4 UTC
+August 12, 1942 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.05620 Eclipse Obscuration 0.01566 Gamma −1.52444 Sun Right Ascension 09h24m47.6s Sun Declination +15°12'09.3" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'47.0" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 09h23m32.6s Moon Declination +13°50'08.2" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'03.2" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°55'14.6" ΔT 25.5 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 August–September 1942 August 12Ascending node (new moon) August 26Descending node (full moon) September 10Ascending node (new moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 115 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 127 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 153
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1942 A total lunar eclipse on March 3. A partial solar eclipse on March 16. A partial solar eclipse on August 12. A total lunar eclipse on August 26. A partial solar eclipse on September 10.
Metonic Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 30, 1946
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 30, 1935
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of August 5, 1933 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of August 17, 1951
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 1931 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953
Solar Saros 115 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 31, 1924
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 31, 1913 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971
Triad Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 12, 2029
Solar eclipses of 1942–1946
Saros 115
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
See also Moon's orbit
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