An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, with a magnitude of 0.9868. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The Moon's apparent diameter was near the average diameter because it occurred 6.2 days after perigee (on April 23, 2014, at 1:20 UTC) and 7.2 days before apogee (on May 6, 2014, at 11:20 UTC).
This eclipse's gamma value was closer to 1 than any other eclipse from 2000 B.C. to 3000 A.D. This means the center of the Moon's shadow passed almost exactly at the surface of the Earth, barely missing the Antarctic continent by a few kilometers, but an annular eclipse was visible from a small part of Antarctica, and a partial eclipse was visible from parts of Antarctica and Australia.
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Eclipse timing Places experiencing partial eclipse Solar Eclipse of April 29, 2014(Local Times)Country or territory City or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage Marion Island 07:24:32 (sunrise) 07:39:21 08:25:06 1:01 14.46% Île de la Possession 08:53:48 09:47:08 10:44:35 1:51 23.19% Port-aux-Français 08:57:47 10:07:42 11:22:40 2:25 47.03% Île Amsterdam 09:07:48 10:17:45 11:32:42 2:25 30.05% Casey Station 12:38:55 13:53:40 15:07:03 2:28 94.85% Cocos (Keeling) Islands Bantam 12:26:22 12:56:05 13:25:18 0:59 1.00% Perth 13:16:37 14:42:08 15:59:10 2:43 49.25% Lord Howe Island 16:56:01 17:16:03 17:18:39 (sunset) 0:23 12.19% Flying Fish Cove 13:14:40 13:47:58 14:19:57 1:05 1.60% Hobart 15:50:32 17:00:16 17:17:25 (sunset) 1:27 64.44% Eucla 14:30:01 15:47:03 16:55:09 2:25 47.46% Malang 13:51:06 14:04:00 14:16:38 0:26 0.11% Melbourne 15:57:58 17:06:52 17:35:43 (sunset) 1:38 54.61% Adelaide 15:25:09 16:36:54 17:35:40 (sunset) 2:11 51.26% Denpasar 14:45:29 15:07:54 15:29:29 0:44 0.62% Singaraja 14:52:20 15:08:08 15:23:31 0:31 0.21% Mataram 14:47:58 15:09:26 15:30:06 0:42 0.55% Canberra 16:08:16 17:12:24 17:23:02 (sunset) 1:15 46.17% Raba 14:54:14 15:13:30 15:32:06 0:38 0.43% Sydney 16:13:38 17:14:11 17:16:51 (sunset) 1:03 41.39% Brisbane 16:30:58 17:14:56 17:18:20 (sunset) 0:47 23.42% Alice Springs 15:44:14 16:47:26 17:43:47 2:00 26.18% Kupang 14:49:43 15:19:06 15:46:52 0:57 1.77% Suai 16:00:53 16:21:50 16:41:55 0:41 0.68% Tennant Creek 15:57:10 16:52:03 17:41:31 1:44 16.54% Same 16:05:16 16:22:31 16:39:11 0:34 0.38% Dili 16:11:25 16:22:46 16:33:50 0:22 0.11% Baucau 16:16:43 16:23:50 16:30:50 0:14 0.03% Darwin 16:20:45 16:55:25 17:27:48 1:07 3.64% Cairns 16:56:08 17:31:26 17:59:50 (sunset) 1:04 5.91%References:
Eclipse details Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
+April 29, 2014 Solar Eclipse Times Event Time (UTC) First Penumbral External Contact 2014 April 29 at 03:53:46.0 UTC Equatorial Conjunction 2014 April 29 at 05:38:58.2 UTC First Umbral External Contact 2014 April 29 at 05:58:45.6 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2014 April 29 at 06:04:32.9 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2014 April 29 at 06:10:41.3 UTC Ecliptic Conjunction 2014 April 29 at 06:15:28.3 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact 2014 April 29 at 08:15:37.1 UTC
+April 29, 2014 Solar Eclipse Parameters Parameter Value Eclipse Magnitude 0.98679 Eclipse Obscuration - Gamma -0.99996 Sun Right Ascension 02h25m52.9s Sun Declination +14°26'54.2" Sun Semi-Diameter 15'52.9" Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7" Moon Right Ascension 02h26m46.0s Moon Declination +13°31'06.8" Moon Semi-Diameter 15'38.4" Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°57'24.1" ΔT 67.3 s
Eclipse season
This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.
+ Eclipse season of April 2014 April 15Ascending node (full moon) April 29Descending node (new moon) Total lunar eclipseLunar Saros 122 Annular solar eclipseSolar Saros 148
Related eclipses Eclipses in 2014 A total lunar eclipse on April 15. A non-central annular solar eclipse on April 29. A total lunar eclipse on October 8. A partial solar eclipse on October 23.
Metonic Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 11, 2010 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 15, 2018
Tzolkinex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 19, 2007 Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021
Half-Saros Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of April 24, 2005 Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 5, 2023
Tritos Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 31, 2003 Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 29, 2025
Solar Saros 148 Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 17, 1996 Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 9, 2032
Inex Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 19, 1985 Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043
Triad Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927 Followed by: Solar eclipse of February 28, 2101
Solar eclipses of 2011–2014
Saros 148
Metonic series
Tritos series
Inex series
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References
External links
A Partially Eclipsed Setting Sun, APOD 4/30/2014, partial eclipse of Adelaide, South Australia Brisbane Sunset Moonset, APOD 5/1/2014, partial eclipse of Brisbane, Queensland