Nature Partial Magnitude 0.0561 Saros 115 (72 of 72) Start date August 12, 1942 | Gamma -1.5244 Greatest eclipse 2:45:12 Catalog # (SE5000) 9381 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 12, 1942. 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 1942-1946
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.
Note: The partial solar eclipse on September 10, 1942 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
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