Solar eclipse of July 1, 2011

Solar eclipse of July 1, 2011
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	-1.4917
Magnitude	0.0971
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	7:53:47
Greatest eclipse	8:39:30
(P4) Partial end	9:22:45
References
Saros	156 (1 of 69)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9533

A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 1, 2011. 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. This is the first solar eclipse of saros series 156, only visible as a partial solar eclipse in a small area south of South Africa and north of Antarctica. At greatest eclipse, the magnitude is just 0.097.^[1] It is the first new saros series to begin since saros 155 began with the partial solar eclipse of June 17, 1928.^[2]

This eclipse is the third of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on January 4, 2011, June 1, 2011 and November 25, 2011.

Images

SE2011Jul01P.gif

Animated path

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2008–2011

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 2008–2011
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Ascending node		Descending node
121 Partial from Christchurch, New Zealand	2008 February 7 Annular	126 Novosibirsk, Russia	2008 August 1 Total
131 Bandar Lampung, Indonesia	2009 January 26 Annular	136 Kurigram, Bangladesh	2009 July 22 Total
141 Bangui, Central African Republic	2010 January 15 Annular	146 French Polynesia	2010 July 11 Total
151 Partial from Vienna, Austra	2011 January 4 Partial (north)	156	2011 July 1 Partial (south)
Partial solar eclipses on June 1, 2011, and November 25, 2011, occur on the next lunar year eclipse set.

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 22 eclipse events between September 12, 1931 and July 1, 2011.

September 11-12	June 30-July 1	April 18-19	February 4-5	November 22-23
114	116	118	120	122
September 12, 1931	June 30, 1935	April 19, 1939	February 4, 1943	November 23, 1946
124	126	128	130	132
September 12, 1950	June 30, 1954	April 19, 1958	February 5, 1962	150px November 23, 1965
134	136	138	140	142
September 11, 1969	June 30, 1973	April 18, 1977	February 4, 1981	November 22, 1984
144	146	148	150	152
September 11, 1988	June 30, 1992	April 17, 1996	February 5, 2000	November 23, 2003
154	156
September 11, 2007	July 1, 2011