Nature Partial Magnitude 0.3221 Saros 155 (3 of 71) Start date July 9, 1964 | Gamma 1.3623 Greatest eclipse 11:17:53 Catalog # (SE5000) 9429 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 9, 1964. 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 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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