Nature Annular Magnitude 0.931 Max. width of band 305 km (190 mi) Start date March 17, 1923 | Gamma -0.5438 Duration 471 sec (7 m 51 s) Greatest eclipse 12:44:58 | |
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 17, 1923. 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 1921-1924
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 March 17, 1923 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA