# Eclipses 1940

> There are 5 eclipses in 1940: 2 solar and 3 lunar. Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23 in Libra; Annular Solar Eclipse on April 7 in Aries; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on April 22 in Scorpio; Total Solar Eclipse on October 1 in Libra; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on October 16 in Aries. They fall on the Aries-Libra and Taurus-Scorpio axes. Times are global peak times in UTC.

Canonical page: https://www.selfgazer.com/sky/eclipses/1940

| Peak (UTC) | Eclipse | Position | Nodes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1940-03-23 19:47 UTC | Penumbral Lunar Eclipse | 3°10' Libra | North Node in Libra |
| 1940-04-07 20:20 UTC | Annular Solar Eclipse | 17°51' Aries | North Node in Libra |
| 1940-04-22 04:25 UTC | Penumbral Lunar Eclipse | 1°47' Scorpio | North Node in Libra |
| 1940-10-01 12:43 UTC | Total Solar Eclipse | 8°10' Libra | North Node in Libra |
| 1940-10-16 08:00 UTC | Penumbral Lunar Eclipse | 22°42' Aries | North Node in Libra |

## Questions

### When Are the Eclipses in 1940?

There are 5 eclipses in 1940: 2 solar and 3 lunar. Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23 in Libra; Annular Solar Eclipse on April 7 in Aries; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on April 22 in Scorpio; Total Solar Eclipse on October 1 in Libra; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on October 16 in Aries. They fall on the Aries-Libra and Taurus-Scorpio axes. Times are global peak times in UTC.

### When Are the Solar Eclipses in 1940?

Annular Solar Eclipse on April 7, 1940 at 3:20 PM ET (20:20 UTC), in Aries; Total Solar Eclipse on October 1, 1940 at 7:43 AM ET (12:43 UTC), in Libra.

### When Are the Lunar Eclipses in 1940?

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on March 23, 1940 at 2:47 PM ET (19:47 UTC), in Libra; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on April 21, 1940 at 11:25 PM ET (04:25 UTC on April 22), in Scorpio; Penumbral Lunar Eclipse on October 16, 1940 at 3:00 AM ET (08:00 UTC), in Aries.

### What Signs Are the Eclipses in During 1940?

The 1940 eclipses fall on the Aries-Libra, Taurus-Scorpio axes, following the lunar nodes. Eclipses happen only when a New or Full Moon is close to the North or South Node.

### Where Will the Eclipse Be Visible?

Times on this page are the global peak of each eclipse. Whether you can see it depends on your location: a solar eclipse is visible only along its path, while a lunar eclipse is visible from the whole night side of Earth.

### What Do Eclipses Mean in Astrology?

Astrologers treat eclipses as amplified New and Full Moons that mark turning points, especially for the houses in your birth chart that hold the eclipse signs. Solar eclipses are read as beginnings and lunar eclipses as culminations.

### Why Do Some Sites List a Different Eclipse Date?

Most astrology sites print a single date without a time zone. An ingress at 10:49 PM in New York is already the next day in London and Sydney, so two correct sources can disagree by a day. Selfgazer gives every time in both US Eastern time and UTC, and the tables switch to your own time zone in the browser.

## Method

Positions are geocentric and tropical: apparent longitudes on the true ecliptic and equinox of date, corrected for light time and aberration. They are computed with the open-source Astronomy Engine library (VSOP87 planetary theory) and agree with the Swiss Ephemeris to within about one arcminute. The North Node is the mean node. Times are given in UTC and US Eastern time.

Source: [Selfgazer](https://www.selfgazer.com/sky/eclipses/1940). Free to cite with a link to the source page.