Nature Partial Magnitude 0.6393 Saros 148 (17 of 75) Start date March 16, 1942 | Gamma -1.1908 Greatest eclipse 23:37:07 Catalog # (SE5000) 9379 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on March 16, 1942. 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 1939-1942
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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