Solar eclipse of June 8, 1937

Solar eclipse of June 8, 1937
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.2253
Magnitude	1.0751
Maximum eclipse
Duration	424 sec (7 m 4 s)
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band	250 km (160 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:41:02
References
Saros	136 (33 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9369

A total solar eclipse occurred on June 8, 1937. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The path of totality crossed the pacific ocean starting in Micronesia, and ending at sunset in western South America.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1935-1938

Each member 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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1935-1938
Ascending node		Descending node
111	January 5, 1935 Partial	116	June 30, 1935 Partial
121	December 25, 1935 Annular	126	June 19, 1936 Total
131	December 13, 1936 Annular	136	June 8, 1937 Total
141	December 2, 1937 Annular	146	May 29, 1938 150px Total
151	November 21, 1938 150px Partial

Saros 136

Solar Saros 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on Jun 14, 1360, and reached a first annular eclipse on September 8, 1504. It was a hybrid event from November 22, 1612, through January 17, 1703, and total eclipses from January 27, 1721 through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622, with the entire series lasting 1262 years. The longest eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955, with a maximum duration of totality at 7 minutes, 8 seconds.^[1]

Series members 29–43 occur between 1865 and 2117:

29	30	31
April 25, 1865	May 6, 1883	May 18, 1901
32	33	34
May 29, 1919	Jun 8, 1937	Jun 20, 1955
35	36	37
Jun 30, 1973	Jul 11, 1991	Jul 22, 2009
38	39	40
Aug 2, 2027	Aug 12, 2045	Aug. 24, 2063
41	42	43
Sep. 3, 2081	Sep. 14, 2099	Sep. 26, 2117