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Solar eclipse of April 8, 1921

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Nature
  
Annular

Magnitude
  
0.9753

Max. width of band
  
192 km (119 mi)

Start date
  
April 8, 1921

Gamma
  
0.8869

Duration
  
110 sec (1 m 50 s)

Greatest eclipse
  
9:15:01

Solar eclipse of April 8, 1921

An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 1921. 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.

Solar eclipses 1921-1924

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.

References

Solar eclipse of April 8, 1921 Wikipedia