Nature Partial Magnitude 0.0114 Saros 111 (78 of 79) Start date December 24, 1916 | Gamma -1.5321 Greatest eclipse 20:46:22 Catalog # (SE5000) 9320 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on December 24, 1916. 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. This minor eclipse was only visible off shore from Antarctica.
Solar eclipses 1916-1920
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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