title: Solar eclipse of May 19, 1928
text: # Solar eclipse of May 19, 1928
  
  A total solar eclipse occurred on May 19, 1928. 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.
  
  While it was a total solar eclipse, it was a non-central total eclipse.
  
  This was the last of 56 umbral solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117. The 1st was in 936 AD and the 56th was in 1928. The total duration is 992 years.
  
  ## Related eclipses
  
  ### Solar eclipses 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.
  
  Solar eclipse series sets from 1928–1931 :
  
  | Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 117 | May 19, 1928 Total (non-central) | 122 | November 12, 1928 Partial |
  | 127 | May 9, 1929 Total | 132 | November 1, 1929 Annular |
  | 137 | April 28, 1930 Hybrid | 142 | October 21, 1930 Total |
  | 147 | April 18, 1931 Partial | 152 | October 11, 1931 Partial |
  
  ### 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 ascending node.
  
  22 eclipse events between December 24, 1916 and July 31, 2000 :
  
  | December 24–25 | October 12–13 | July 31-Aug 1 | May 18–20 | March 7–8 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 91 | 93 | 95 | 97 | 99 |
  | December 23, 1878 | October 12, 1882 | July 31, 1886 | May 18, 1890 | March 7, 1894 |
  | 101 | 103 | 105 | 107 | 109 |
  | December 23, 1897 | October 12, 1901 | August 1, 1905 | May 19, 1909 | March 8, 1913 |
  | 111 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 119 |
  | December 24, 1916 | October 12, 1920 | July 31, 1924 | May 19, 1928 | March 7, 1932 |
  | 121 | 123 | 125 | 127 | 129 |
  | December 25, 1935 | October 12, 1939 | August 1, 1943 | May 20, 1947 | March 7, 1951 |
  | 131 | 133 | 135 | 137 | 139 |
  | December 25, 1954 | October 12, 1958 | July 31, 1962 | May 20, 1966 | March 7, 1970 |
  | 141 | 143 | 145 | 147 | 149 |
  | December 24, 1973 | October 12, 1977 | July 31, 1981 | May 19, 1985 | March 7, 1989 |
  | 151 | 153 | 155 | 157 | 159 |
  | December 24, 1992 | October 12, 1996 | July 31, 2000 | May 19, 2004 | March 7, 2008 |
  | 161 | 163 | 165 | 167 | 169 |
  | December 24, 2011 | October 13, 2015 | August 1, 2019 | May 19, 2023 | March 8, 2027 |
  