Solar eclipse of December 24, 1916

Solar eclipse of December 24, 1916
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Partial
Gamma -1.5321
Magnitude 0.0114
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates 65°42′S 32°06′E / 65.7°S 32.1°E / -65.7; 32.1
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 20:46:22
References
Saros 111 (78 of 79)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9320

A partial solar eclipse occurred on December 24, 1916. 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. This minor eclipse was only visible off shore from Antarctica.

Solar eclipses 1916-1920

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.[1]

Notes

  1. van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

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