Nature Partial Magnitude 0.0375 Saros 155 (1 of 71) Start date June 17, 1928 | Gamma 1.5107 Greatest eclipse 20:27:28 Catalog # (SE5000) 9346 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on June 17, 1928. 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 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 June 17, 1928 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA