Nature Partial Magnitude 0.0643 Saros 108 (76 of 76) Start date April 8, 1902 | Gamma 1.5024 Greatest eclipse 14:05:06 Catalog # (SE5000) 9286 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 1902. 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 1902-1907
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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