Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994

Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	-0.3522
Magnitude	1.0535
Maximum eclipse
Duration	263 sec (4 m 23 s)
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Max. width of band	189 km (117 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:40:06
References
Saros	133 (44 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9496

A total solar eclipse occurred on November 3, 1994. 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.

Images

File:SE1994Nov03T.gif

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1993-1996

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 1993–1996
Saros	Map	Saros	Map
Ascending node		Descending node
118	May 21, 1993 Partial	123	November 13, 1993 Partial
128	May 10, 1994 Annular	133	November 3, 1994 Total
138	April 29, 1995 Annular	143 150px Totality at Dundlod, India	October 24, 1995 Total
148	April 17, 1996 Partial	153	October 12, 1996 Partial

Saros 133

Solar Saros 133, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, contains 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 13, 1219. It contains annular eclipses from November 20, 1435, through January 13, 1526, with a hybrid eclipse on January 24, 1544. It has total eclipses from February 3, 1562, through June 21, 2373. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on September 5, 2499. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 50 seconds on August 7, 1850.^[1] The total eclipses of this saros series are getting shorter and farther south with each iteration.

Series members 30-49 occur between 1742 and 2100
30	31	32
June 3, 1742	June 13, 1760	150px June 24, 1778
33	34	35
July 4, 1796	July 17, 1814	July 27, 1832
36	37	38
August 7, 1850	150px August 18, 1868	150px August 29, 1886
39	40	41
September 9, 1904	150px September 21, 1922	150px October 1, 1940
42	43	44
October 12, 1958	October 23, 1976	November 3, 1994
45	46	47
November 13, 2012	November 25, 2030	December 5, 2048
48	49	50
December 17, 2066	150px December 27, 2084	January 8, 2103

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 20 eclipse events between June 10, 1964 and August 21, 2036.

June 10–11	March 27–29	January 15–16	November 3	August 21–22
117	119	121	123	125
150px June 10, 1964	March 28, 1968	January 16, 1972	November 3, 1975	August 22, 1979
127	129	131	133	135
June 11, 1983	March 29, 1987	January 15, 1991	November 3, 1994	August 22, 1998
137	139	141	143	145
June 10, 2002	March 29, 2006	January 15, 2010	November 3, 2013	August 21, 2017
147	149	151	153	155
June 10, 2021	March 29, 2025	January 14, 2029	November 3, 2032	August 21, 2036