Nature Partial Magnitude 0.8074 Saros 124 (56 of 73) Start date November 4, 2040 | Gamma 1.0993 Greatest eclipse 19:09:02 Catalog # (SE5000) 9598 | |
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A partial solar eclipse will occur on November 4, 2040. 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.
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Solar eclipses of 2040-2043
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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