Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9269 Max. width of band 334 km (208 mi) | Gamma -0.5768 Duration 478 sec (7 m 58 s) Greatest eclipse 5:12:26 | |
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 6, 1905. 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 1902-1907
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 6, 1905 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA