A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Sunday, October 11, 1931, with a magnitude of 0.9005. 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 southern and central South America and Antarctica.

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.

October 11, 1931 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact1931 October 11 at 11:01:29.3 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1931 October 11 at 12:55:39.8 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1931 October 11 at 13:06:15.3 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1931 October 11 at 13:53:48.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1931 October 11 at 14:49:27.7 UTC
October 11, 1931 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.90054
Eclipse Obscuration0.88440
Gamma−1.06069
Sun Right Ascension13h03m34.8s
Sun Declination-06°46'31.5"
Sun Semi-Diameter16'01.4"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.8"
Moon Right Ascension13h01m31.6s
Moon Declination-07°43'48.4"
Moon Semi-Diameter16'43.0"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax1°01'21.2"
ΔT23.9 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. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.

Eclipse season of September–October 1931
September 12 Descending node (new moon)September 26 Ascending node (full moon)October 11 Descending node (new moon)
Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 114Total lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 126Partial solar eclipse Solar Saros 152

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1931

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 152

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1928–1931

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 June 17, 1928 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on September 12, 1931 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1928 to 1931
Ascending nodeDescending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
117May 19, 1928 Total (non-central)1.0048122November 12, 1928 Partial1.0861
127May 9, 1929 Total−0.2887132November 1, 1929 Annular0.3514
137April 28, 1930 Hybrid0.473142October 21, 1930 Total−0.3804
147April 18, 1931 Partial1.2643152October 11, 1931 Partial−1.0607

Saros 152

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 152, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 26, 1805. It contains total eclipses from November 2, 1967 through September 14, 2490; hybrid eclipses from September 26, 2508 through October 17, 2544; and annular eclipses from October 29, 2562 through June 16, 2941. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on August 20, 3049. 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 30 at 5 minutes, 16 seconds on June 9, 2328, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 53 at 5 minutes, 20 seconds on February 16, 2743. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.

Series members 1–22 occur between 1805 and 2200:
123
July 26, 1805August 6, 1823August 16, 1841
456
August 28, 1859September 7, 1877September 18, 1895
789
September 30, 1913October 11, 1931October 21, 1949
101112
November 2, 1967November 12, 1985November 23, 2003
131415
December 4, 2021December 15, 2039December 26, 2057
161718
January 6, 2076January 16, 2094January 29, 2112
192021
February 8, 2130February 19, 2148March 2, 2166
22
March 12, 2184

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.

Series members between 1801 and 1964
September 17, 1811 (Saros 141)August 16, 1822 (Saros 142)July 17, 1833 (Saros 143)June 16, 1844 (Saros 144)May 16, 1855 (Saros 145)
April 15, 1866 (Saros 146)March 15, 1877 (Saros 147)February 11, 1888 (Saros 148)January 11, 1899 (Saros 149)December 12, 1909 (Saros 150)
November 10, 1920 (Saros 151)October 11, 1931 (Saros 152)September 10, 1942 (Saros 153)August 9, 1953 (Saros 154)July 9, 1964 (Saros 155)

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
December 30, 1815 (Saros 148)December 9, 1844 (Saros 149)November 20, 1873 (Saros 150)
October 31, 1902 (Saros 151)October 11, 1931 (Saros 152)September 20, 1960 (Saros 153)
August 31, 1989 (Saros 154)August 11, 2018 (Saros 155)July 22, 2047 (Saros 156)
July 1, 2076 (Saros 157)June 12, 2105 (Saros 158)May 23, 2134 (Saros 159)
April 12, 2192 (Saros 161)

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