Solar eclipse of January 14, 1907

Solar eclipse of January 14, 1907
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.8628
Magnitude	1.0281
Maximum eclipse
Duration	145 s (2 min 25 s)
Coordinates	38°18′N 86°24′E / 38.3°N 86.4°E / 38.3; 86.4
Max. width of band	189 km (117 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	6:05:43
References
Saros	120 (55 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9297

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, January 14, 1907,^[1] with a magnitude of 1.0281. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring only about 1.2 days after perigee (on January 13, 1906, at 2:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.^[2]

Totality was visible from Russian Empire (the parts now belonging to Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan) and China (now northwestern China, Mongolia and northern part of northeastern China).^[3] A partial eclipse was visible for most of Asia.

The Camden Morning Post described its path as such:^[4]

The shadow track begins on the banks of the Don, in Southern Russia, where the sun rises as totality is ending. It passes over the northern part of the Caspian Sea, where totality begins at sunrise, ant then over the Aral Sea and through Russian Turkestan, Samarkand being the principal town on the shadow track. Then it passes through the Pamirs and into Central Asia, through the desert of Gobi, ending finally on the River Amur, where totality commences at sunset.^[4]