A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, March 19, 2007, with a magnitude of 0.8756. 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 partial eclipse was visible from India at sunrise, across Asia and the eastern part of European Russia, and ending near sunset over northern Alaska. The greatest eclipse was seen in the north of Perm Krai, Russia.

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Eclipse timing

Places experiencing partial eclipse

Solar eclipse of March 19, 2007(local times)
Country or territoryCity or placeStart of partial eclipseMaximum eclipseEnd of partial eclipseDuration of eclipse (hr:min)Maximum coverage
ThailandBangkok07:47:3608:21:2308:56:561:097.36%
MyanmarYangon07:12:5307:53:5908:37:471:2515.37%
IndiaKolkata06:11:5006:59:5307:51:371:4031.33%
BangladeshDhaka06:43:1907:32:3108:25:321:4232.40%
IndiaNew Delhi06:27:03 (sunrise)07:06:4408:00:561:3447.83%
VietnamHanoi07:53:3608:37:0709:23:191:3014.60%
NepalKathmandu06:30:4507:22:1308:17:471:4743.06%
BhutanThimphu06:46:3207:38:2908:34:341:4840.07%
PakistanIslamabad06:13:49 (sunrise)06:44:2907:40:101:2658.30%
AfghanistanKabul05:59:24 (sunrise)06:15:3307:10:251:1160.18%
Hong KongHong Kong09:08:4609:46:4310:26:251:187.70%
TajikistanDushanbe06:31:05 (sunrise)06:52:1407:48:291:1766.92%
TurkmenistanTürkmenabat06:51:54 (sunrise)06:54:4007:47:540:5667.62%
UzbekistanTashkent06:29:10 (sunrise)06:56:5807:54:091:2570.82%
KyrgyzstanBishkek07:07:59 (sunrise)08:00:3808:59:391:5271.67%
KazakhstanAlmaty07:06:0908:01:5409:01:381:5571.34%
ChinaÜrümqi09:09:0010:07:1411:09:332:0166.12%
IranMashhad05:37:40 (sunrise)05:40:2006:11:350:3440.05%
ChinaShanghai09:29:2910:12:1110:56:251:279.88%
KazakhstanAstana07:20:48 (sunrise)08:15:0209:14:181:5480.18%
TurkmenistanAshgabat07:12:35 (sunrise)07:15:1907:44:350:3237.68%
MongoliaKhovd08:17:4609:17:2110:20:392:0366.93%
RussiaOmsk07:25:5908:22:4009:22:301:5781.53%
ChinaBeijing09:27:2810:23:1011:21:161:5428.33%
RussiaYekaterinburg07:04:08 (sunrise)07:24:0408:21:111:1784.50%
MongoliaUlaanbaatar09:27:5410:28:2911:32:012:0450.76%
South KoreaSeoul10:47:3011:31:1212:15:551:2810.21%
North KoreaPyongyang10:45:0911:32:2212:20:491:3613.62%
RussiaIzhevsk06:33:40 (sunrise)06:37:3507:19:370:4666.58%
RussiaSamara06:45:58 (sunrise)06:49:3307:12:220:2629.39%
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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.

March 19, 2007 solar eclipse times
EventTime (UTC)
First penumbral external contact2007 March 19 at 00:39:26.5 UTC
Greatest eclipse2007 March 19 at 02:32:57.5 UTC
Ecliptic conjunction2007 March 19 at 02:43:39.1 UTC
Equatorial conjunction2007 March 19 at 03:34:11.6 UTC
Last penumbral external contact2007 March 19 at 04:26:02.2 UTC
March 19, 2007 solar eclipse parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse magnitude0.87558
Eclipse obscuration0.85148
Gamma1.07277
Sun right ascension23h53m04.0s
Sun declination-00°45'04.8"
Sun semi-diameter16'04.0"
Sun equatorial horizontal parallax08.8"
Moon right ascension23h50m57.2s
Moon declination+00°12'14.7"
Moon semi-diameter16'40.7"
Moon equatorial horizontal parallax1°01'12.5"
ΔT65.2 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 March 2007
March 3 Descending node (full moon)March 19 Ascending node (new moon)
Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 123Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 149

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2007

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 149

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 2004–2007

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2004 to 2007
Ascending nodeDescending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
119April 19, 2004 Partial−1.13345124October 14, 2004 Partial1.03481
129 Partial in Naiguatá, VenezuelaApril 8, 2005 Hybrid−0.34733134 Annularity in Madrid, SpainOctober 3, 2005 Annular0.33058
139 Totality in Side, TurkeyMarch 29, 2006 Total0.38433144 Partial in São Paulo, BrazilSeptember 22, 2006 Annular−0.40624
149 Partial in Jaipur, IndiaMarch 19, 2007 Partial1.07277154 Partial in Córdoba, ArgentinaSeptember 11, 2007 Partial−1.12552

Saros 149

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 149, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on August 21, 1664. It contains total eclipses from April 9, 2043 through October 2, 2331; hybrid eclipses from October 13, 2349 through November 3, 2385; and annular eclipses from November 15, 2403 through July 13, 2800. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on September 28, 2926. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of totality will be produced by member 31 at 4 minutes, 10 seconds on July 17, 2205, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 62 at 5 minutes, 6 seconds on June 21, 2764. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.

Series members 9–30 occur between 1801 and 2200:
91011
November 18, 1808November 29, 1826December 9, 1844
121314
December 21, 1862December 31, 1880January 11, 1899
151617
January 23, 1917February 3, 1935February 14, 1953
181920
February 25, 1971March 7, 1989March 19, 2007
212223
March 29, 2025April 9, 2043April 20, 2061
242526
May 1, 2079May 11, 2097May 24, 2115
272829
June 3, 2133June 14, 2151June 25, 2169
30
July 6, 2187

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 4–5October 23–24August 10–12May 30–31March 18–19
111113115117119
January 5, 1935August 12, 1942May 30, 1946March 18, 1950
121123125127129
January 5, 1954October 23, 1957August 11, 1961May 30, 1965March 18, 1969
131133135137139
January 4, 1973October 23, 1976August 10, 1980May 30, 1984March 18, 1988
141143145147149
January 4, 1992October 24, 1995August 11, 1999May 31, 2003March 19, 2007
151153155
January 4, 2011October 23, 2014August 11, 2018

Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

The partial solar eclipses on December 7, 2170 (part of Saros 164) and November 7, 2181 (part of Saros 165) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2105
September 28, 1810 (Saros 131)August 27, 1821 (Saros 132)July 27, 1832 (Saros 133)June 27, 1843 (Saros 134)May 26, 1854 (Saros 135)
April 25, 1865 (Saros 136)March 25, 1876 (Saros 137)February 22, 1887 (Saros 138)January 22, 1898 (Saros 139)December 23, 1908 (Saros 140)
November 22, 1919 (Saros 141)October 21, 1930 (Saros 142)September 21, 1941 (Saros 143)August 20, 1952 (Saros 144)July 20, 1963 (Saros 145)
June 20, 1974 (Saros 146)May 19, 1985 (Saros 147)April 17, 1996 (Saros 148)March 19, 2007 (Saros 149)February 15, 2018 (Saros 150)
January 14, 2029 (Saros 151)December 15, 2039 (Saros 152)November 14, 2050 (Saros 153)October 13, 2061 (Saros 154)September 12, 2072 (Saros 155)
August 13, 2083 (Saros 156)July 12, 2094 (Saros 157)June 12, 2105 (Saros 158)

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
August 5, 1804 (Saros 142)July 17, 1833 (Saros 143)June 27, 1862 (Saros 144)
June 6, 1891 (Saros 145)May 18, 1920 (Saros 146)April 28, 1949 (Saros 147)
April 7, 1978 (Saros 148)March 19, 2007 (Saros 149)February 27, 2036 (Saros 150)
February 5, 2065 (Saros 151)January 16, 2094 (Saros 152)December 28, 2122 (Saros 153)
December 8, 2151 (Saros 154)November 17, 2180 (Saros 155)

Photos:

  • Deepu George V Mananthavady, Wayanad, Kerala, India
  • Kozlovskiy, Aleksandr (28 March 2007). [March [2007] is the month of eclipses (through the eyes of an eyewitness)] (in Russian).