Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011

Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011
	Partial from Poland
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.0627
Magnitude	0.8576
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	64.7°N 20.8°E
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	6:40:11
Greatest eclipse	8:51:42
(P4) Partial end	11:00:52
References
Saros	151 (14 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9531

The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula. The eclipse belonged to Saros 151 and was number 14 of 72 eclipses in the series.

Greatest eclipse occurred at 08:51 UTC in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon had a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon's shadow passed a mere 510 km above Earth's surface.[1]

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 was the first of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on June 1, 2011, July 1, 2011, and November 25, 2011.

It also precedes the two total lunar eclipses occurring on June 15, 2011 and December 10, 2011.

Photo gallery

Animated path

From Slobozia, Romania at 7:52 UTC.
Katowice, Poland from 7:58 to 8:25 (UTC)
From Marki, Poland at 8:33 UTC.
From Stockholm, Sweden at 8:36 UTC.
From Krasnystaw, Poland at 8:36 UTC.
From Bratislava, Slovakia at 8:43 UTC.
From Sana'a, Yemen at 8:47 UTC.
From Moscow, Russia at 9:02 UTC.
From Vienna, Austria at 9:34 UTC.
From Petrov nad Desnou, Czech republic at 9:41 UTC.
From Tomsk, Russia at 9:50 UTC.
From Krasnystaw, Poland at 9:55 UTC.
From Ebersberg, Germany
Composite image from Bernau am Chiemsee, Germany

Related eclipses

Eclipses of 2011

It was preceded two weeks earlier by the total lunar eclipse of December 21, 2010.

Solar eclipses 2008–2011

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[2]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2008–2011
Ascending node			Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
121 Partial from Christchurch, NZ	2008 February 07 Annular	-0.9570	126 Novosibirsk, Russia	2008 August 01 Total	0.8307
131 Partial from Riversdal	2009 January 26 Annular	-0.2819	136 Kurigram, Bangladesh	2009 July 22 Total	0.0698
141 Bangui, Central African Republic	2010 January 15 Annular	0.4002	146 Hao, French Polynesia	2010 July 11 Total	-0.6787
151 Partial from Vienna, Austria	2011 January 04 Partial (north)	1.0626	156	2011 July 01 Partial (south)	-1.4917
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). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

22 eclipse events between January 5, 1935 and August 11, 2018
January 4-5	October 23-24	August 10-12	May 30-31	March 18-19
111	113	115	117	119
January 5, 1935		August 12, 1942	May 30, 1946	March 18, 1950
121	123	125	127	129
January 5, 1954	October 23, 1957	August 11, 1961	May 30, 1965	March 18, 1969
131	133	135	137	139
January 4, 1973	October 23, 1976	August 10, 1980	May 30, 1984	March 18, 1988
141	143	145	147	149
January 4, 1992	October 24, 1995	August 11, 1999	May 31, 2003	March 19, 2007
151	153	155	157	159
January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014	August 11, 2018

Notes

Eclipses during 2011 NASA
van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

References

Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Besselian elements

NASA Chart PDF

External links

Live web-cast of the Partial Solar Eclipse of 2011 Jan 04 Bareket observatory, Israel
Solar eclipse of 2011 January 4. Russia, Moscow. 4 Photos
APOD 1/5/2011 , 1/6/2011 , 1/7/2011
SpaceWeather.com Solar eclipse gallery On Jan. 4, 2011
Solar Eclipse from spain

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[1] Eclipses during 2011 NASA

[2] van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.