Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9951 Max. width of band 20 km (12 mi) Start date January 25, 1963 | Gamma -0.4898 Duration 25 sec (0 m 25 s) Greatest eclipse 13:37:12 | |
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 25, 1963. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
Solar eclipses of 1961-1964
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 January 25, 1963 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA