Nature Partial Magnitude 0.7872 Saros 149 (18 of 71) Start date February 25, 1971 | Gamma 1.1188 Greatest eclipse 9:38:07 Catalog # (SE5000) 9444 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on February 25, 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.
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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