Nature Partial Magnitude 0.7352 Saros 118 (67 of 72) | Gamma 1.1372 Greatest eclipse 14:20:15 Catalog # (SE5000) 9493 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on May 21, 1993. 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 1993-1996
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 May 21, 1993 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA