Nature Partial Magnitude 0.508 Saros 154 (4 of 71) Start date August 20, 1971 | Gamma -1.2659 Greatest eclipse 22:39:31 Catalog # (SE5000) 9445 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 20–21, 1971. 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. It was visible near sunrise on August 21st over parts of Australia.
Solar eclipses of 1968-1971
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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