Nature Partial Magnitude 0.5107 Saros 147 (18 of 80) Start date April 18, 1931 | Gamma 1.2643 Greatest eclipse 0:45:35 Catalog # (SE5000) 9353 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 18, 1931. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
Solar eclipses 1928-1931
Each member 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.
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Solar eclipse of April 18, 1931 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA