Solar eclipse of December 14, 1917
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An annular solar eclipse occurred on Friday, December 14, 1917. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
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Solar eclipse of December 14, 1917 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.9157 |
Magnitude | 0.9791 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 77 s (1 min 17 s) |
Coordinates | 88°S 124.8°E / -88; 124.8 |
Max. width of band | 189 km (117 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 9:27:20 |
References | |
Saros | 121 (55 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9323 |
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This annular eclipse is notable in that the path of annularity passed over the South Pole.