A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17, 1942, with a magnitude of 0.6393. 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 and southern Oceania.
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 16, 1942 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 1942 March 16 at 21:44:48.6 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 1942 March 16 at 22:54:14.8 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1942 March 16 at 23:37:06.8 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1942 March 16 at 23:50:18.2 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1942 March 17 at 01:29:50.5 UTC
+March 16, 1942 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.63936 Eclipse Obscuration 0.54379 Gamma −1.19082 Sun Right Ascension 23h44m24.0s Sun Declination -01°41'22.1" Sun Semi-Diameter 16'04.3" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8" Moon Right Ascension 23h45m46.3s Moon Declination -02°45'29.1" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'26.7" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°56'41.2" ΔT 25.4 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.
+ Eclipse season of March 1942 March 3Ascending node (full moon) March 16Descending node (new moon) Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 122 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 148
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 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 29, 1938 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 3, 1946
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 3, 1935 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 28, 1949
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 12, 1933 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of March 23, 1951
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 18, 1931 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 14, 1953
Solar Saros 148 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 5, 1924 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 27, 1960
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 6, 1913 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 16, 1855 Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 14, 2029
Solar eclipses of 1939–1942
Saros 148
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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