A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, March 5, 1924, with a magnitude of 0.5819. 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.

A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Antarctica and Southern Africa.

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 5, 1924 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact1924 March 5 at 13:55:48.0 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1924 March 5 at 15:01:55.2 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1924 March 5 at 15:44:20.0 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1924 March 5 at 15:57:55.9 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1924 March 5 at 17:33:17.1 UTC
March 5, 1924 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.58196
Eclipse Obscuration0.47664
Gamma−1.22320
Sun Right Ascension23h04m03.9s
Sun Declination-05°58'59.1"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'07.1"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.9"
Moon Right Ascension23h05m25.5s
Moon Declination-07°04'53.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter15'24.0"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°56'31.1"
ΔT23.5 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 February–March 1924
February 20 Ascending node (full moon)March 5 Descending node (new moon)
Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 122Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 148

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1924

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 148

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1921–1924

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.

The partial solar eclipse on July 31, 1924 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1921 to 1924
Descending nodeAscending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
118April 8, 1921 Annular0.8869123October 1, 1921 Total−0.9383
128March 28, 1922 Annular0.1711133September 21, 1922 Total−0.213
138March 17, 1923 Annular−0.5438143September 10, 1923 Total0.5149
148March 5, 1924 Partial−1.2232153August 30, 1924 Partial1.3123

Saros 148

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 148, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 75 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on September 21, 1653. It contains annular eclipses on April 29, 2014 and May 9, 2032; a hybrid eclipse on May 20, 2050; and total eclipses from May 31, 2068 through August 3, 2771. The series ends at member 75 as a partial eclipse on December 12, 2987. 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 annularity will be produced by member 22 at 22 seconds (by default) on May 9, 2032, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 54 at 5 minutes, 23 seconds on April 26, 2609. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.

Series members 10–31 occur between 1801 and 2200:
101112
December 30, 1815January 9, 1834January 21, 1852
131415
January 31, 1870February 11, 1888February 23, 1906
161718
March 5, 1924March 16, 1942March 27, 1960
192021
April 7, 1978April 17, 1996April 29, 2014
222324
May 9, 2032May 20, 2050May 31, 2068
252627
June 11, 2086June 22, 2104July 4, 2122
282930
July 14, 2140July 25, 2158August 4, 2176
31
August 16, 2194

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 descending node.

22 eclipse events between March 5, 1848 and July 30, 1935
March 5–6December 22–24October 9–11July 29–30May 17–18
108110112114116
March 5, 1848July 29, 1859May 17, 1863
118120122124126
March 6, 1867December 22, 1870October 10, 1874July 29, 1878May 17, 1882
128130132134136
March 5, 1886December 22, 1889October 9, 1893July 29, 1897May 18, 1901
138140142144146
March 6, 1905December 23, 1908October 10, 1912July 30, 1916May 18, 1920
148150152154
March 5, 1924December 24, 1927October 11, 1931July 30, 1935

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 eclipse on October 24, 2098 (part of Saros 164) is also a part of this series but is not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2011
February 11, 1804 (Saros 137)January 10, 1815 (Saros 138)December 9, 1825 (Saros 139)November 9, 1836 (Saros 140)October 9, 1847 (Saros 141)
September 7, 1858 (Saros 142)August 7, 1869 (Saros 143)July 7, 1880 (Saros 144)June 6, 1891 (Saros 145)May 7, 1902 (Saros 146)
April 6, 1913 (Saros 147)March 5, 1924 (Saros 148)February 3, 1935 (Saros 149)January 3, 1946 (Saros 150)December 2, 1956 (Saros 151)
November 2, 1967 (Saros 152)October 2, 1978 (Saros 153)August 31, 1989 (Saros 154)July 31, 2000 (Saros 155)July 1, 2011 (Saros 156)

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
May 25, 1808 (Saros 144)May 4, 1837 (Saros 145)April 15, 1866 (Saros 146)
March 26, 1895 (Saros 147)March 5, 1924 (Saros 148)February 14, 1953 (Saros 149)
January 24, 1982 (Saros 150)January 4, 2011 (Saros 151)December 15, 2039 (Saros 152)
November 24, 2068 (Saros 153)November 4, 2097 (Saros 154)October 16, 2126 (Saros 155)
September 26, 2155 (Saros 156)September 4, 2184 (Saros 157)

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