An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Monday, November 11, 1901,[1] with a magnitude of 0.9216. 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 only about 4.5 hours before apogee (on November 11, 1901, at 12:00 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.[2]
Annularity was visible from the Italian island Sicily, the whole British Malta (now Malta), Ottoman Tripolitania (now Libya), Egypt, Ottoman Empire (parts now belonging to Cretan State in Greece, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia), Emirate of Jabal Shammar (now belonging to Saudi Arabia), Aden Protectorate (now belonging to Yemen), Muscat and Oman (now Oman), British Raj (the parts now belonging to India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Myanmar), British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Siam (name changed to Thailand later), French Indochina (the parts now belonging to Cambodia, southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including Phnom Penh), Bombay Reef in the Paracel Islands, and Philippines. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of North Africa, East Africa, most of Asia, and Northern Australia.
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.[3]
| First Penumbral External Contact | 1901 November 11 at 04:29:38.4 UTC | |
| First Umbral External Contact | 1901 November 11 at 05:39:58.5 UTC | |
| First Central Line | 1901 November 11 at 05:43:40.3 UTC | |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 1901 November 11 at 05:47:24.1 UTC | |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 1901 November 11 at 07:17:59.6 UTC | |
| Greatest Eclipse | 1901 November 11 at 07:28:20.9 UTC | |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 1901 November 11 at 07:34:04.9 UTC | |
| Greatest Duration | 1901 November 11 at 07:34:34.5 UTC | |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 1901 November 11 at 09:09:25.3 UTC | |
| Last Central Line | 1901 November 11 at 09:13:09.0 UTC | |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 1901 November 11 at 09:16:50.9 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 1901 November 11 at 10:27:08.6 UTC |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 0.92156 | |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 0.84926 | |
| Gamma | 0.47576 | |
| Sun Right Ascension | 15h03m02.2s | |
| Sun Declination | -17°15'48.8" | |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'09.6" | |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" | |
| Moon Right Ascension | 15h03m21.4s | |
| Moon Declination | -16°50'38.2" | |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 14'41.8" | |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°53'56.3" | |
| ΔT | -0.3 s |
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.