A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Sunday, August 31, 1913, with a magnitude of 0.1513. 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 eastern Canada and Greenland.
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 31, 1913 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) Equatorial Conjunction 1913 August 31 at 19:35:08.9 UTC First Penumbral External Contact 1913 August 31 at 20:02:37.1 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 1913 August 31 at 20:38:01.7 UTC Greatest Eclipse 1913 August 31 at 20:52:11.8 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 1913 August 31 at 21:42:17.1 UTC
+August 31, 1913 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.15134 Eclipse Obscuration 0.06998 Gamma 1.45121 Sun Right Ascension 10h37m57.1s Sun Declination +08°38'38.2" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'51.0" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 10h40m42.4s Moon Declination +09°57'27.7" Moon Semi-Diameter 16'42.1" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°01'17.9" ΔT 15.5 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 1913 August 31Descending node (new moon) September 15Ascending node (full moon) September 30Descending node (new moon) Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 114 Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 126 Partial solar eclipseSolar Saros 152
Related eclipses Eclipses in 1913 A total lunar eclipse on March 22. A partial solar eclipse on April 6. A partial solar eclipse on August 31. A total lunar eclipse on September 15. A partial solar eclipse on September 30.
Metonic Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 19, 1917
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 21, 1906
Tritos Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 31, 1924
Solar Saros 114 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 20, 1895 Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 1931
Inex Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 12, 1942
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 31, 1826 Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 1, 2000
Solar eclipses of 1913–1917
Saros 114
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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