An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, March 27, 1941, with a magnitude of 0.9355. 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 2.6 days before apogee (on March 30, 1941, at 10:50 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
Annularity was visible from Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Oceania, Central America, the Caribbean, western South America, and Antarctica.
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.
+March 27, 1941 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1941 March 27 at 17:12:43.8 UTC First Umbral External Contact 1941 March 27 at 18:23:09.9 UTC First Central Line 1941 March 27 at 18:26:16.2 UTC First Umbral Internal Contact 1941 March 27 at 18:29:24.0 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1941 March 27 at 19:49:22.3 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1941 March 27 at 20:08:07.8 UTC Greatest Duration 1941 March 27 at 20:11:10.7 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1941 March 27 at 20:14:07.0 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 1941 March 27 at 21:47:04.6 UTC Last Central Line 1941 March 27 at 21:50:13.5 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 1941 March 27 at 21:53:20.9 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1941 March 27 at 23:03:43.6 UTC
+March 27, 1941 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.93546 Eclipse Obscuration 0.87508 Gamma −0.50251 Sun Right Ascension 00h24m50.5s Sun Declination +02°41'09.8" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'01.3" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 00h25m23.4s Moon Declination +02°15'13.1" Moon Semi-Diameter 14'47.6" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°54'17.7" ΔT 24.9 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 March 1941 March 13Ascending node (full moon) March 27Descending node (new moon) Partial lunar eclipseLunar Saros 112 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 138
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1941 A partial lunar eclipse on March 13. An annular solar eclipse on March 27. A partial lunar eclipse on September 5. A total solar eclipse on September 21.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 8, 1937 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 14, 1945
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 14, 1934 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 9, 1948
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 22, 1932 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 2, 1950
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 25, 1952
Solar Saros 138 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 17, 1923 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 8, 1959
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 17, 1912 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 7, 1970
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 26, 1854 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 26, 2028
Solar eclipses of 1939–1942
Saros 138
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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