Nature Partial Magnitude 0.5819 Saros 148 (16 of 75) Start date March 5, 1924 | Gamma -1.2232 Greatest eclipse 15:44:20 Catalog # (SE5000) 9336 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on March 5, 1924. 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 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 5, 1924 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA