Solar eclipse of October 1, 1940

Solar eclipse of October 1, 1940
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Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.2573
Magnitude	1.0645
Maximum eclipse
Duration	335 sec (5 m 35 s)
Coordinates
Max. width of band	218 km (135 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	12:44:06
References
Saros	133 (41 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9376

A total solar eclipse occurred on October 1, 1940. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1939-1942

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 1939-1942

Descending node			Ascending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
118	April 19, 1939 Annular		123	October 12, 1939 Total
128	April 7, 1940 150px Annular		133	October 1, 1940 150px Total
138	March 27, 1941 150px Annular		143	September 21, 1941 Total
148	March 16, 1942 150px Partial		153	September 10, 1942 150px Partial
The partial solar eclipse on August 12, 1942 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 133

Solar Saros 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435, through January 13, 1526, with a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544. It has total eclipses from February 3, 1562, through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850. The total eclipses of this saros series are getting shorter and farther south with each iteration.

Series members 30-49 occur between 1742 and 2100

30	31	32
June 3, 1742	June 13, 1760	150px June 24, 1778
33	34	35
July 4, 1796	July 17, 1814	July 27, 1832
36	37	38
August 7, 1850	150px August 18, 1868	150px August 29, 1886
39	40	41
September 9, 1904	150px September 21, 1922	150px October 1, 1940
42	43	44
October 12, 1958	October 23, 1976	November 3, 1994
45	46	47
November 13, 2012	November 25, 2030	December 5, 2048
48	49	50
December 17, 2066	150px December 27, 2084	January 8, 2103

References

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