Solar eclipse of March 7, 1932

Solar eclipse of March 7, 1932
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.9673
Magnitude	0.9277
Maximum eclipse
Duration	319 sec (5 m 19 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	1,083 km (673 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	7:55:50
References
Saros	119 (61 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9356

An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1932. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1931-1935

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 1931-1935

Descending node			Ascending node
114	September 12, 1931 Partial		119	March 7, 1932 Annular
124	August 31, 1932 150px Total		129	February 24, 1933 150px Annular
134	August 21, 1933 Annular		139	February 14, 1934 Total
144	August 10, 1934 150px Annular		149	February 3, 1935 Partial
154	July 30, 1935 Partial

Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days).

This series has 21 eclipse events between July 31, 1924 and July 31, 2000.

July 31-Aug 1	May 19-20	March 7	December 24-25	October 12
115	117	119	121	123
July 31, 1924	May 19, 1928	March 7, 1932	December 25, 1935	October 12, 1939
125	127	129	131	133
August 1, 1943	May 20, 1947	March 7, 1951	December 25, 1954	October 12, 1958
135	137	139	141	143
July 31, 1962	150px May 20, 1966	March 7, 1970	December 24, 1973	October 12, 1977
145	147	149	151	153
July 31, 1981	May 19, 1985	March 7, 1989	December 24, 1992	October 12, 1996
155
July 31, 2000

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements