Solar eclipse of March 19, 2007

Solar eclipse of March 19, 2007
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.0728
Magnitude	0.8756
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	61°00′N 55°30′E / 61°N 55.5°E
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	2:32:57
References
Saros	149 (20 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9523

A partial solar eclipse occurred on March 18-19, 2007. 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 partial eclipse was visible from India at sunrise, across Asia, and ending near sunset over northern Alaska.

Images

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 2004-2007

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

Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map		Saros	Map
119	2004 April 19 Partial (south)		124	2004 October 14 Partial (north)
129	2005 April 8 Hybrid		134 Annular from Spain	2005 October 3 Annular
139 Total 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).

21 eclipse events between August 12, 1942 and August 11, 2018
August 10-12	May 30	March 18	January 4-5	October 23-24
115	117	119	121	123
August 12, 1942	May 30, 1946	March 18, 1950	January 5, 1954	October 23, 1957
125	127	129	131	133
August 11, 1961	May 30, 1965	March 18, 1969	January 4, 1973	October 23, 1976
135	137	139	141	143
August 10, 1980	May 30, 1984	March 18, 1988	January 4, 1992	October 24, 1995
145	147	149	151	153
August 11, 1999	May 31, 2003	March 19, 2007	January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014
155
August 11, 2018

References

• NASA graphics
  • NASA map
  • Besselian Elements - Partial Solar Eclipse of 2007 March 19

Photos:

• Spaceweather.com eclipse gallery
• APOD 3/22/2007, Goa Silhouettes, from Goa India
• APOD 3/23/2007, Touran Sunrise, from Touran Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Iran
• http://deepugeorge.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html Solar Eclipse - 19th March 2007] Deepu George V Mananthavady, Wayanad, Kerala, India