Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9999 Greatest eclipse 2:26:04 Start date May 9, 1948 | Gamma 0.4133 Duration 0 sec (0 m 0 s) Saros 137 (32 of 70) | |
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 9, 1948. 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 1946-1949
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 9, 1948 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA