Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906

A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1906. 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.[1]

Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma1.3731
Magnitude0.3147
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates70.8°N 66.4°W / 70.8; -66.4
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse1:12:50
References
Saros153 (3 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9295

Solar eclipses 1902–1907

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.[2]

Notes

  1. "What Is a Solar Eclipse?". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  2. 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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