Solar eclipse of September 21, 1941

Solar eclipse of September 21, 1941
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.4649
Magnitude	1.0379
Maximum eclipse
Duration	202 sec (3 m 22 s)
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band	143 km (89 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	4:34:03
References
Saros	143 (19 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9378

A total solar eclipse occurred on September 21, 1941. 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 southern Asia, and ended in the Pacific ocean.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses of 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
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Descending node		Ascending node
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 143

It is a part of Saros cycle 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617 and total event from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995. It has hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067, and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2873. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887.^[1]

Series members 17-28 occur between 1901 and 2100:

17	18	19
August 30, 1905	September 10, 1923	September 21, 1941
20	21	22
October 2, 1959	October 12, 1977	October 24, 1995
23	24	25
November 3, 2013	November 14, 2031	November 25, 2049
26	27	28
December 6, 2067	December 16, 2085