Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9995 Max. width of band 2 km (1.2 mi) | Gamma -0.4956 Duration 3 sec (0 m 3 s) Greatest eclipse 20:22:53 | |
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 3, 1927. 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.
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Observations
View of the eclipse from Buenos Aires
Solar eclipses 1924-1928
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 January 3, 1927 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA