Solar eclipse of November 3, 2013

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, November 3, 2013, with a magnitude of 1.0159. It was a hybrid event, a narrow total eclipse, and beginning as an annular eclipse and concluding as a total eclipse, in this particular case. 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 hybrid solar eclipse is a rare type of solar eclipse that changes its appearance from annular to total and back as the Moon's shadow moves across the Earth's surface. Totality occurs between the annularity paths across the surface of the Earth, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 2.9 days before perigee (on November 6, 2013, at 9:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.

Visibility

Totality was visible from the northern Atlantic Ocean (east of Florida) to Africa (Gabon (landfall), the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia), with a maximum duration of totality of 1 minute and 39 seconds, visible from the Atlantic Ocean south of Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Places with partial darkening were the eastern coast of North America, southern Greenland, Bermuda, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, northern South America, almost all the African continent, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece, Malta, Southern Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey and the Middle East.

This solar eclipse happened simultaneously with the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and it was possible to observe a partial solar eclipse in Abu Dhabi before the sunset while the F1 race took place, as shown briefly during its broadcast.

Eclipse timing

Places experiencing total eclipse

Places experiencing partial eclipse

Gallery

• Wind angle view in Agüimes, Las Palmas during the eclipse

• An eclipse monument in Pakwach, Uganda
• From Ottawa, Canada at sunrise, 11:24 UTC
• From Liberty State Park, New Jersey at sunrise, 11:37 UTC
• From Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey at sunrise, 11:40 UTC
• From Melbourne, Florida at sunrise, 11:45 UTC
• Partial from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 12:01 UTC
• Partial from Tétouan, Morocco, 12:27 UTC
• Partial from Bayeux, Brazil, 12:35 UTC
• Partial from Lake Turkana, Kenya, 13:54 UTC
• From Triolet, Mauritius at sunset, 14:18 UTC
• From Bunia, DR Congo at greatest eclipse, 14:22 UTC
• From Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at sunset, 14:50 UTC

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.

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.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2013

• A partial lunar eclipse on April 25.
• An annular solar eclipse on May 10.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on May 25.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on October 18.
• A hybrid solar eclipse on November 3.

Metonic

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 15, 2010
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017

Tzolkinex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 22, 2006
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 14, 2020

Half-Saros

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 28, 2004
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 8, 2022

Tritos

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 4, 2002
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024

Solar Saros 143

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 24, 1995
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 14, 2031

Inex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 22, 1984
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042

Triad

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 3, 1927
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100

Solar eclipses of 2011–2014

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 eclipses on January 4, 2011 and July 1, 2011 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 143

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617. It contains total eclipses from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995; hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067; and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2897. 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 was produced by member 16 at 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 51 at 4 minutes, 54 seconds on September 6, 2518. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.

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.

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.

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.

Notes

• Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
• (partial), APOD 11/4/2013
• , APOD 11/7/2013, totality above Atlantic Ocean, 600 miles southeast of Bermuda
• , APOD 11/8/2013, totality from Pokwero, Nebbi District, Northern Region, Uganda
• , APOD 11/11/2013, combination of Sun in ultraviolet light recorded by the SWAP instrument aboard PROBA2, total eclipse from Gabon, and solar corona taken by LASCO instrument aboard SOHO

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