Nature Annular Magnitude 0.968 Max. width of band 115 km (71 mi) Start date July 9, 1926 | Gamma 0.0538 Duration 231 sec (3 m 51 s) Greatest eclipse 23:06:02 | |
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on July 9, 1926. 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 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.
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Solar eclipse of July 9, 1926 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA