Nature Partial Magnitude 0.4245 Saros 153 (4 of 70) Start date August 30, 1924 | Gamma 1.3123 Greatest eclipse 8:23:00 Catalog # (SE5000) 9337 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 30, 1924. 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 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.
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Solar eclipse of August 30, 1924 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA