Nature Partial Magnitude 0.9638 Saros 152 (9 of 70) | Gamma -1.027 Greatest eclipse 21:13:01 Catalog # (SE5000) 9397 | |
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on October 21, 1949. 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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Solar eclipse of October 21, 1949 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA