Solar eclipse of March 6, 1905

Solar eclipse of March 6, 1905
Solar eclipse of March 6, 1905
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.5768
Magnitude	0.9269
Maximum eclipse
Duration	478 s (7 min 58 s)
Coordinates	39°30′S 117°24′E / 39.5°S 117.4°E
Max. width of band	334 km (208 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	5:12:26
References
Saros	138 (25 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9292

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 6, 1905.^[1]^[2] 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. Annularity was visible from Heard Island and McDonald Islands (now an Australian external territory), Australia, New Caledonia, and New Hebrides (now Vanuatu).

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses 1902–1907[edit]

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.^[3]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1902 to 1907
Descending node		Ascending node
108	April 8, 1902 Partial	113	October 1, 1902
118	March 29, 1903 Annular	123	September 21, 1903 Total
128	March 17, 1904 Annular	133	September 9, 1904 Total
138	March 6, 1905 Annular	143	August 30, 1905 Total
148	February 23, 1906 Partial	153	August 20, 1906 Partial

Saros 138[edit]

It is a part of Saros cycle 138, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 6, 1472. It contains annular eclipses from August 31, 1598, through February 18, 2482 with a hybrid eclipse on March 1, 2500. It has total eclipses from March 12, 2518, through April 3, 2554. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on July 11, 2716. The longest duration of totality will be only 56 seconds on April 3, 2554.

Series members 25–35 occur between 1901 and 2100:
25	26	27
March 6, 1905	March 17, 1923	March 27, 1941
28	29	30
April 8, 1959	April 18, 1977	April 29, 1995
31	32	33
May 10, 2013	May 21, 2031	May 31, 2049
34	35
June 11, 2067	June 22, 2085

Tritos series[edit]

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1901 and 2100
March 6, 1905 (Saros 138)	February 3, 1916 (Saros 139)	January 3, 1927 (Saros 140)
December 2, 1937 (Saros 141)	November 1, 1948 (Saros 142)	October 2, 1959 (Saros 143)
August 31, 1970 (Saros 144)	July 31, 1981 (Saros 145)	June 30, 1992 (Saros 146)
May 31, 2003 (Saros 147)	April 29, 2014 (Saros 148)	March 29, 2025 (Saros 149)
February 27, 2036 (Saros 150)	January 26, 2047 (Saros 151)	December 26, 2057 (Saros 152)
November 24, 2068 (Saros 153)	October 24, 2079 (Saros 154)	September 23, 2090 (Saros 155)

Notes[edit]

^ "Page 4". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia. 1905-03-06. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Eclipse of the sun". The Leader. Orange, New South Wales, Australia. 1905-03-06. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.