Solar eclipse of October 3, 2005

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, October 3, 2005,^[1][2][3] with a magnitude of 0.958. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 4.75 days after apogee (on September 28, 2005, at 16:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.^[4]

Solar eclipse of October 3, 2005

Annular eclipse
Annular from Madrid, Spain
Map
Gamma	0.3306
Magnitude	0.9576
Maximum eclipse
Duration	272 s (4 min 32 s)
Coordinates	12.9°N 28.7°E / 12.9; 28.7
Max. width of band	162 km (101 mi)
Times (UTC)
(P1) Partial begin	3:53:56
(U1) Total begin	18:40:59
Greatest eclipse	10:32:47
(U4) Total end	1:22:35
(P4) Partial end	24:27:52
References
Saros	134 (43 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9520
← April 8, 2005 March 29, 2006 →

Annularity was visible from a narrow corridor through Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. A partial eclipse was seen from the much broader path of the Moon's penumbra, including most of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Another solar eclipse in Africa occurred just 6 months later.

Visibility

The path of the eclipse began in the North Atlantic ocean at 08:41 universal time (UT). The antumbra reached Madrid, Spain at 08:56 UT, lasting four minutes and eleven seconds and 90% of the Sun was covered by the Moon. The antumbra reached Algiers at 09:05 UT, then passed through Tunisia and Libya before heading southeast through Sudan, Kenya and Somalia. The shadow then moved out over the Indian Ocean until it terminated at sunset, 12:22 UT.^[5]

The maximum eclipse duration occurred in central Sudan at 10:31:42 UT, where it lasted for 4m 31s when the Sun was 71° above the horizon.^[5]

The motion of the shadow was supersonic and it generated gravity waves that were detectable as disturbances in the ionosphere. These gravity waves originate in the thermosphere at an altitude of about 180 km. Because of the obscuration of solar radiation, the ionization level dropped by 70% during the eclipse.^[6][7] The eclipse caused a 1–1.4 K drop in the temperature of the ionosphere.^[8]

Images

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  Satellite image showing the Moon's shadow over East Africa
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  Animation from Medina del Campo, Spain
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  Santa Maria de Lamas, Portugal (9:00 UTC)
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  Eclipse projection through leaves in St. Julian's, Malta
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  Saintes, France (9:36 UTC)
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  Chennai, India (11:33 UTC)
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  Eclipse sequence from Degania A, Israel

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.^[9]

October 3, 2005 Solar Eclipse Times

Event	Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact	2005 October 3 at 07:36:39.6 UTC
First Umbral External Contact	2005 October 3 at 08:42:04.1 UTC
First Central Line	2005 October 3 at 08:44:06.1 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact	2005 October 3 at 08:46:08.3 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact	2005 October 3 at 10:00:20.1 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction	2005 October 3 at 10:11:46.9 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction	2005 October 3 at 10:28:57.3 UTC
Greatest Eclipse	2005 October 3 at 10:32:47.3 UTC
Greatest Duration	2005 October 3 at 10:38:04.7 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact	2005 October 3 at 11:05:45.4 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact	2005 October 3 at 12:19:41.4 UTC
Last Central Line	2005 October 3 at 12:21:40.9 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact	2005 October 3 at 12:23:40.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact	2005 October 3 at 13:28:57.9 UTC

October 3, 2005 Solar Eclipse Parameters

Parameter	Value
Eclipse Magnitude	0.95759
Eclipse Obscuration	0.91698
Gamma	0.33058
Sun Right Ascension	12h37m55.0s
Sun Declination	-04°05'04.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter	15'59.1"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	08.8"
Moon Right Ascension	12h38m30.3s
Moon Declination	-03°49'04.7"
Moon Semi-Diameter	15'05.2"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax	0°55'22.1"
ΔT	64.8 s

Eclipse season

See also: Eclipse cycle

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 October 2005

October 3 Descending node (new moon)	October 17 Ascending node (full moon)
Annular solar eclipse Solar Saros 134	Partial lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 146

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 2005

• A hybrid solar eclipse on April 8.
• A penumbral lunar eclipse on April 24.
• An annular solar eclipse on October 3.
• A partial lunar eclipse on October 17.

Metonic

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 14, 2001
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009

Tzolkinex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of August 22, 1998
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012

Half-Saros

• Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of September 27, 1996
• Followed by: Lunar eclipse of October 8, 2014

Tritos

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 3, 1994
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 1, 2016

Solar Saros 134

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 23, 1987
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023

Inex

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 23, 1976
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 12, 2034

Triad

• Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 3, 1918
• Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 3, 2092

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.^[10]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2004 to 2007
Ascending node				Descending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
119	April 19, 2004 Partial	−1.13345		124	October 14, 2004 Partial	1.03481
129 Partial in Naiguatá, Venezuela	April 8, 2005 Hybrid	−0.34733		134 Annularity in Madrid, Spain	October 3, 2005 Annular	0.33058
139 Totality in Side, Turkey	March 29, 2006 Total	0.38433		144 Partial in São Paulo, Brazil	September 22, 2006 Annular	−0.40624
149 Partial in Jaipur, India	March 19, 2007 Partial	1.07277		154 Partial in Córdoba, Argentina	September 11, 2007 Partial	−1.12552

Saros 134

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554; hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843; and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. 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 11 at 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 52 at 10 minutes, 55 seconds on January 10, 2168. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.^[11]

Series members 32–53 occur between 1801 and 2200:
32	33	34
June 6, 1807	June 16, 1825	June 27, 1843
35	36	37
July 8, 1861	July 19, 1879	July 29, 1897
38	39	40
August 10, 1915	August 21, 1933	September 1, 1951
41	42	43
September 11, 1969	September 23, 1987	October 3, 2005
44	45	46
October 14, 2023	October 25, 2041	November 5, 2059
47	48	49
November 15, 2077	November 27, 2095	December 8, 2113
50	51	52
December 19, 2131	December 30, 2149	January 10, 2168
53
January 20, 2186

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.

21 eclipse events between July 22, 1971 and July 22, 2047
July 22	May 9–11	February 26–27	December 14–15	October 2–3
116	118	120	122	124
July 22, 1971	May 11, 1975	February 26, 1979	December 15, 1982	October 3, 1986
126	128	130	132	134
July 22, 1990	May 10, 1994	February 26, 1998	December 14, 2001	October 3, 2005
136	138	140	142	144
July 22, 2009	May 10, 2013	February 26, 2017	December 14, 2020	October 2, 2024
146	148	150	152	154
July 22, 2028	May 9, 2032	February 27, 2036	December 15, 2039	October 3, 2043
156
July 22, 2047

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 2200
April 14, 1809 (Saros 116)	March 14, 1820 (Saros 117)	February 12, 1831 (Saros 118)	January 11, 1842 (Saros 119)	December 11, 1852 (Saros 120)
November 11, 1863 (Saros 121)	October 10, 1874 (Saros 122)	September 8, 1885 (Saros 123)	August 9, 1896 (Saros 124)	July 10, 1907 (Saros 125)
June 8, 1918 (Saros 126)	May 9, 1929 (Saros 127)	April 7, 1940 (Saros 128)	March 7, 1951 (Saros 129)	February 5, 1962 (Saros 130)
January 4, 1973 (Saros 131)	December 4, 1983 (Saros 132)	November 3, 1994 (Saros 133)	October 3, 2005 (Saros 134)	September 1, 2016 (Saros 135)
August 2, 2027 (Saros 136)	July 2, 2038 (Saros 137)	May 31, 2049 (Saros 138)	April 30, 2060 (Saros 139)	March 31, 2071 (Saros 140)
February 27, 2082 (Saros 141)	January 27, 2093 (Saros 142)	December 29, 2103 (Saros 143)	November 27, 2114 (Saros 144)	October 26, 2125 (Saros 145)
September 26, 2136 (Saros 146)	August 26, 2147 (Saros 147)	July 25, 2158 (Saros 148)	June 25, 2169 (Saros 149)	May 24, 2180 (Saros 150)
April 23, 2191 (Saros 151)

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
February 21, 1803 (Saros 127)	February 1, 1832 (Saros 128)	January 11, 1861 (Saros 129)
December 22, 1889 (Saros 130)	December 3, 1918 (Saros 131)	November 12, 1947 (Saros 132)
October 23, 1976 (Saros 133)	October 3, 2005 (Saros 134)	September 12, 2034 (Saros 135)
August 24, 2063 (Saros 136)	August 3, 2092 (Saros 137)	July 14, 2121 (Saros 138)
June 25, 2150 (Saros 139)	June 5, 2179 (Saros 140)