Nature Partial Magnitude 0.3147 Saros 153 (3 of 70) Start date August 20, 1906 | Gamma 1.3731 Greatest eclipse 1:12:50 Catalog # (SE5000) 9295 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1906. 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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