Nature Annular Magnitude 0.97 Max. width of band 108 km (67 mi) Start date July 20, 1944 | Gamma -0.0314 Duration 222 sec (3 m 42 s) Greatest eclipse 5:43:13 | |
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on July 20, 1944. 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 1942-1946
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.
Note: The partial solar eclipse on September 10, 1942 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
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