Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on Tuesday, April 29, 2014.[1] 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. The center of the Moon's shadow missed the Earth's South Pole, but the partial eclipse was visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia, and an annular eclipse was visible from a small part of Antarctica.
Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −1.00001 |
Magnitude | 0.9868 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | - |
Coordinates | 70.6°S 131.3°E / -70.6; 131.3 |
Max. width of band | - km |
Times (UTC) | |
(P1) Partial begin | 3:52:38 |
(U1) Total begin | 5:47:50 |
Greatest eclipse | 6:04:33 |
(U4) Total end | 6:09:20 |
(P4) Partial end | 8:14:28 |
References | |
Saros | 148 (21 of 75) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9539 |
This eclipse's gamma value was closer to 1 than any other eclipse from 2000 B.C. to 3000 A.D. This means the center of the Moon's shadow passed almost exactly at the surface of the Earth, barely missing the Antarctic continent by a few kilometers.