Nature Hybrid Magnitude 1.0024 Max. width of band 10 km (6.2 mi) | Gamma -0.4985 Duration 12 sec (0 m 12 s) Greatest eclipse 11:44:28 | |
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A total solar eclipse occurred on December 23, 1908. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This event is a hybrid, starting and ending as an annular eclipse.
Solar eclipses 1906-1909
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.
References
Solar eclipse of December 23, 1908 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA