Solar eclipse of January 14, 1926

Solar eclipse of January 14, 1926
A photo of the eclipse, taken from Sumatra by John A. Miller of the Swarthmore expedition
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.1973
Magnitude	1.043
Maximum eclipse
Duration	251 s (4 min 11 s)
Coordinates	10°06′S 82°18′E / 10.1°S 82.3°E / -10.1; 82.3
Max. width of band	147 km (91 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	6:36:58
References
Saros	130 (47 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9341

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, January 14, 1926,^[1] with a magnitude of 1.043. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring 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 17 hours after perigee (on January 14, 1926, at 23:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.^[2]

Totality was visible from French Equatorial Africa (the part now belonging to Central African Republic), northeastern Belgian Congo (today's DR Congo), southwestern tip of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (the part now belonging to South Sudan), British Uganda (today's Uganda), British Kenya (today's Kenya), southern tip of Italian Somaliland (today's Somalia), British Seychelles (today's Seychelles), Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), North Borneo (now belonging to Malaysia), and Philippines. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Australia.