Nature Partial Magnitude 0.7758 Saros 122 (54 of 70) Start date November 23, 1946 | Gamma 1.105 Greatest eclipse 17:37:12 Catalog # (SE5000) 9391 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on November 23, 1946. 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 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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