Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938

Solar eclipse of November 21, 1938
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Partial
Gamma 1.1077
Magnitude 0.7781
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates 68°54′N 162°00′W / 68.9°N 162°W / 68.9; -162
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 23:52:25
References
Saros 151 (10 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9372

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

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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