Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005

Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Hybrid
Gamma	-0.3473
Magnitude	1.0074
Maximum eclipse
Duration	42 sec (0 m 42 s)
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band	27 km (17 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:36:51
References
Saros	129 (51 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9519

A total solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 2005. 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. This eclipse is a hybrid event, a narrow total eclipse, and beginning and ending as an annular eclipse.^{[citation needed]}

It was visible within a narrow corridor in the Pacific Ocean.^{[citation needed]} The path of the eclipse started south of New Zealand and crossed the Pacific Ocean in a diagonal path and ended in the extreme northwestern part of South America.^{[citation needed]}

Images

File:Solar eclipse animate (2005-Apr-08).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)

Saros 129

It is a part of Saros cycle 129, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 80 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on October 3, 1103. It contains annular eclipses on May 6, 1464 through March 18, 1969, hybrid eclipses on April 8, 2005 and April 20, 2023 and total eclipses from April 30, 2041 through July 26, 2185. The series ends at member 80 as a partial eclipse on February 21, 2528. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 43 seconds on June 25, 2131 .^[1]

Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:

46	47	48
February 14, 1915	150px February 24, 1933	March 7, 1951
49	50	51
March 18, 1969	March 29, 1987	April 8, 2005
52	53	54
April 20, 2023	150px April 30, 2041	May 11, 2059
55	56
May 22, 2077	June 2, 2095

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).

This series has 21 eclipse events between June 21, 1982, and June 21, 2058.

June 21	April 8-9	January 26	November 13-14	September 1-2
117	119	121	123	125
June 21, 1982	April 9, 1986	January 26, 1990	November 13, 1993	September 2, 1997
127	129	131	133	135
June 21, 2001	April 8, 2005	January 26, 2009	November 13, 2012	150px September 1, 2016
137	139	141	143	145
June 21, 2020	April 8, 2024	January 26, 2028	November 14, 2031	September 2, 2035
147	149	151	153	155
June 21, 2039	April 9, 2043	150px January 26, 2047	November 14, 2050	September 2, 2054
157
June 21, 2058