Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014

Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
classification
Type	Ring-shaped
area	South India , Australia , Antarctica Annular: East Antarctica
Saros cycle	148 (21 of 75)
Gamma value	−1,0001
Greatest eclipse
place	Antarctic
location	70 ° 39 ′  S , 131 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 70 ° 39 ′  S , 131 ° 18 ′  E
time	April 29, 2014 6:03:24 AM   UT
size	0.9868

The annular solar eclipse of April 29, 2014 occurred in the extreme south of the earth. It was the first not only partial eclipse of the Saros cycle 148. With a gamma value of -1.0001 it represented the rare case of a non-central ring-shaped eclipse. The longitudinal axis of the shadow cone just missed the surface of the earth. Its edge area or part of the zone of the ring-shaped eclipse grazed the earth, so that the natural spectacle could be observed in a relatively small area in West Antarctica. There was no corridor along which the darkness sweeps the earth's surface, but a comparatively narrow area in the western part of Wilkesland .

The partial eclipse could not only be seen in parts of Antarctica, but also in the southern Indian Ocean and Australia.

literature

• Wolfgang Held: Solar and lunar eclipses and the most important astronomical constellations up to 2017. Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7725-2231-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report from the Australian research station Casey (accessed July 7, 2014)

Web links

Commons : Solar eclipse of April 29, 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• solar-eclipse.de: The annular solar eclipse of April 29, 2014
• NASA: Total Solar Eclipse of 2014 April 29
• Solar Eclipses of Saros 148