Nature Partial Magnitude 0.7781 Saros 151 (10 of 72) Start date November 21, 1938 | Gamma 1.1077 Greatest eclipse 23:52:25 Catalog # (SE5000) 9372 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on November 21, 1938. 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 1935-1938
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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