Solar eclipse of May 18, 1901

Solar eclipse of May 18, 1901
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.3626
Magnitude	1.068
Maximum eclipse
Duration	389 sec (6 m 29 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	238 km (148 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	5:33:48
References
Saros	136 (31 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9283

A total solar eclipse occurred on May 18, 1901. 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 Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua, New Guinea.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1901-1902

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 1901-1902

Descending node			Ascending node
136	May 18, 1901 Total		141	November 11, 1901 Annular
146	May 7, 1902 Partial		151	October 31, 1902 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.

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

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements
• Photo of Solar Corona May 18, 1901
• Eclipse of May 18, 1901 (Sumatra). Contact print from the original glass plate negative. Lick Observatory Plate Archive, Mt. Hamilton.
• Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 18, 1901 Reports on the Dutch Expedition to Karang Sago, Sumatra, by Dr. A. A. Nijland, March 1903, Utrecht, Published by the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Academy, Amsterdam
• Russia expedition for solar eclipse of May 18, 1901