Oct. 23, 2014, Partial Solar Eclipse Belongs to Saros Series 153

Summary: The Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, partial solar eclipse belongs to Saros series 153, a series of 70 similar solar eclipses.

Wednesday, July 28, 1870, opened Saros solar series 153’s lineup of 70 solar eclipses: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site

The Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, partial solar eclipse belongs to Saros series 153, which comprises 70 solar eclipses with similar geometries.

October’s partial solar eclipse begins Thursday, Oct. 23, at 19:37:33.0 Universal Time, according to the NASA Eclipse Web Site. Greatest eclipse takes place at 21:44:31.4 UT. Greatest eclipse designates the instant of the closest passage of the lunar shadow cone’s axis to Earth’s center. The eclipse ends at 23:51:39.8 UT.

October 2014’s partial solar eclipse numbers as ninth in the lineup of 70 solar eclipses that compose Saros cycle 153. Similar geometries bind the series’ 70 solar eclipses into a family, known as a series.

The NASA Eclipse Web Site describes Saros 153 solar eclipses as sharing the geometry of occurring at the moon’s ascending node. With each succeeding eclipse in Saros 153, the lunar movement is southward of the ascending node.

A pair of ascending and descending nodes pinpoint the intersections of Earth’s orbit by the moon’s orbit. The two nodes derive from the approximately 5.1 degree tilt of the moon’s orbit with respect to Earth’s orbit. The ascending node specifies the lunar orbital crossing to the north of Earth’s orbit. The descending node identifies the lunar orbital crossing to the south of Earth’s orbit.

The Saros cycle of approximately 6,585.3 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours) patterns the periodicity and recurrence of solar eclipses. Each Saros series produces 70 or more eclipses and plays out over 12 to 13 centuries.

Saros solar series 153 lasts for 1,244.08 years, according to the NASA Eclipse Web Site. The series lasts for 14 centuries. Saros solar series 148 spans the 19th through 32nd centuries.

Solar eclipses in Saros series 153 string only two eclipse types into sequences of 13 partial solar eclipses, 49 annular solar eclipses and eight partial solar eclipses. Annular solar eclipses claim the most frequency in Saros series 153, with a total of 49 occurrences. Partial solar eclipses account for a total of 21 occurrences.

The partial solar eclipse of Wednesday, July 28, 1870, opened Saros solar series 153. This Northern Hemisphere event’s greatest eclipse, with coordinates of 69.2 north at 170.9 east, took place over Chanskaya Bay, along the southeastern shore of the Russian Far East’s Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

The partial solar eclipse of Saturday, Aug. 22, 3114, will close Saros solar series 153. This Southern Hemisphere event’s greatest eclipse, with coordinates of 71.1 south at 157.4 west, will occur over the open Southern Ocean, north of West Antarctica’s Roosevelt Island.

The partial solar eclipse of Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, numbers as ninth in Saros solar series 153’s opening sequence of 13 partial solar eclipses. This Northern Hemisphere event stages its greatest eclipse, with coordinates of 71.2 north at 97.2 west, over the Franklin Straits, between Price of Wales Island and the Boothia Peninsula, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

A partial solar eclipse on Saturday, Oct. 12, 1996, was the immediate predecessor of the October 2014 partial solar eclipse in Saros solar series 153. This Northern Hemisphere event’s greatest eclipse, with coordinates of 71.7 north at 32.1 east, occurred over the Barents Sea, northeast of northeastern Norway’s Finnmark County.

The October 1996 partial solar eclipse numbered as eighth in Saros solar series 153’s opening sequence of 13 partial solar eclipses. This eclipse also occurred as number eight in the series’ lineup of 70 solar eclipses.

A partial solar eclipse on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2032, succeeds the October 2014 partial solar eclipse in Saros solar series 153. This Northern Hemisphere event will experience its greatest eclipse, with coordinates of 70.4 north at 132.6 east, over northern Sakha Republic, northeastern Siberia, in the Russian Far Eastern Federal District.

The November 2032 partial solar eclipse will occur as the 10th in Saros solar series 153’s opening sequence of 13 partial solar eclipses. This eclipse also occurs as number 10 in the series’ lineup of 70 solar eclipses.

The takeaway for the Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, partial solar eclipse is that the astronomical event numbers as ninth in Saros solar series 153’s lineup of 70 solar eclipses and and as ninth in the series’ opening sequence of 13 partial solar eclipses.

Sunday, Nov. 3, 2032, will succeed the Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, partial solar eclipse in Saros solar series 153’s opening sequence of 13 partial solar eclipses: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site

Acknowledgment

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Partial solar eclipse of Wednesday, July 28, 1870, opened Saros solar series 153’s lineup of 70 solar eclipses: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site @ https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/1801-1900/1870-07-28.gif

Partial solar eclipse of Sunday, Nov. 3, 2032, will succeed the Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, partial solar eclipse in Saros solar series 153’s opening sequence of 13 partial solar eclipses: "Permission is freely granted to reproduce this data when accompanied by an acknowledgment, Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak (NASA's GSFC)," via NASA Eclipse Web Site @ https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/2001-2100/2032-11-03.gif

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