Solar eclipse of October 14, 2004

Solar eclipse of October 14, 2004
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.0348
Magnitude	0.9282
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	3:00:23
References
Saros	124 (54 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9518

A partial solar eclipse occurred on October 14, 2004. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Images

File:SE2004Oct14P.gif
Animated path

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2004-2008

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 2004–2007
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Ascending node\|124	2004 October 14 Partial (north)
129	Descending node
119	2004 April 19 Partial (south)	2005 April 8 Hybrid	134 Annular from Spain	2005 October 3 Annular
139 150px Totality from Side, Turkey	2006 March 29 Total	144 Partial from São Paulo, Brazil	2006 September 22 Annular
149	2007 March 19 Partial (north)	154	2007 September 11 Partial (south)

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).

Octon eclipses between May 21, 1993 and August 2, 2065

This octon series has 21 eclipse events between May 21, 1993 and August 2, 2065.

May 20-21	March 9	December 25-26	October 13-14	August 1-2
118	120	122	124	126
May 21, 1993	March 9, 1997	December 25, 2000	October 14, 2004	August 1, 2008
128	130	132	134	136
May 20, 2012	March 9, 2016	December 26, 2019	October 14, 2023	August 2, 2027
138	140	142	144	146
May 21, 2031	March 9, 2035	December 26, 2038	October 14, 2042	150px August 2, 2046
148	150	152	154	156
May 20, 2050	March 9, 2054	December 26, 2057	October 13, 2061	August 2, 2065
158
May 20, 2069