Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011

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°42′N 20°48′E / 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

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Tuesday, January 4, 2011,^[1]^[2] with a magnitude of 0.8576. 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.

The eclipse 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.^[3]

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.

Visibility[edit]

Animated path

Photo gallery[edit]

Slobozia, Romania at 7:52 UTC
Almería, Spain at 8:03 UTC
Avellino, Italy at 8:18 UTC
Ebersberg, Germany at 8:32 UTC
Composite image from Bernau am Chiemsee, Germany
Vienna, Austria at 8:34 UTC
Stockholm, Sweden at 8:36 UTC
Marki, Poland at 8:38 UTC
Progression from Katowice, Poland
Petrov nad Desnou, Czech Republic at 8:41 UTC
Bratislava, Slovakia at 8:43 UTC
Tomsk, Russia at 8:44 UTC
Video from Moscow, Russia
Sana'a, Yemen at 8:47 UTC
From Moscow, Russia at 9:02 UTC.
Kirkcaldy, Scotland at 9:14 UTC
Haarlem, Netherlands, 9:29 UTC

Related eclipses[edit]

Eclipses of 2011[edit]

A partial solar eclipse on January 4.
A partial solar eclipse on June 1.
A total lunar eclipse on June 15.
A partial solar eclipse on July 1.
A partial solar eclipse on November 25.
A total lunar eclipse on December 10.

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

Solar eclipses of 2008–2011[edit]

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.^[4]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2008 to 2011
Saros	Map	Gamma	Saros	Map	Gamma
Ascending node			Descending node
121 Partial from Christchurch, NZ	2008 February 07 Annular	−0.95701	126 Novosibirsk, Russia	2008 August 01 Total	0.83070
131 Palangka Raya, Indonesia	2009 January 26 Annular	−0.28197	136 Kurigram, Bangladesh	2009 July 22 Total	0.06977
141 Bangui, Central African Republic	2010 January 15 Annular	0.40016	146 Hao, French Polynesia	2010 July 11 Total	−0.67877
151 Partial from Vienna, Austria	2011 January 04 Partial (north)	1.06265	156	2011 July 01 Partial (south)	−1.49171

Partial solar eclipses on June 1, 2011, and November 25, 2011, occur on the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 151[edit]

It is a part of Saros cycle 151, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 14, 1776. It contains annular eclipses from February 28, 2101, through April 23, 2191, a hybrid eclipse on May 5, 2209, and total eclipses from May 16, 2227, through July 6, 2912. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on October 1, 3056. The longest duration of totality will be 5 minutes, 41 seconds on May 22, 2840.

Series members 8-24 occur between 1901 and 2200:
8	9	10
October 31, 1902	November 10, 1920	November 21, 1938
11	12	13
December 2, 1956	December 13, 1974	December 24, 1992
14	15	16
January 4, 2011	January 14, 2029	January 26, 2047
17	18	19
February 5, 2065	February 16, 2083	February 28, 2101
20	21	22
March 11, 2119	March 21, 2137	April 2, 2155
23	24
April 12, 2173	April 23, 2191

Metonic series[edit]

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
January 4, 2011	October 23, 2014	August 11, 2018

Notes[edit]

^ "Mideast, Europe catch partial eclipse". Sentinel Tribune. 2011-01-04. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Years's 1st partial eclipse is today". The Daily Oklahoman. 2011-01-04. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-10-25 – via Newspapers.com.
^ 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.