Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 17, 1904,[1][2][3][4] also known as the "1904 St. Patrick's Day eclipse".[citation needed] 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.
Solar eclipse of March 17, 1904 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.1299 |
Magnitude | 0.9367 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 487 s (8 min 7 s) |
Coordinates | 5.6°N 94.7°E / 5.6; 94.7 |
Max. width of band | 237 km (147 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 5:40:44 |
References | |
Saros | 128 (52 of 73) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9290 |
The path of annularity covered southern German East Africa (now southern Tanzania), northeastern tip of Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), northern Grande Comore Island in French Comoros (now Comoros), southern British Seychelles (now Seychelles), British Mauritius (now Mauritius), most of the British Indian Ocean Territory (excluding the southern part of Diego Garcia), northwestern Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), southern Siam (now renamed as Thailand), French Indochina (the part now belonging to Cambodia, the southern tip of Laos and southern Vietnam, including the major city Phnom Penh, now capital of Cambodia), all of the Paracel Islands, the northern tip of the American Philippines (now Philippines) and Japanese islands of Iwo Jima, South Iwo Jima and Minamitorishima.
In addition, a partial solar eclipse was seen within a much larger area, including the eastern half of Africa, southern West Asia, southern Afghanistan, South Asia except the northernmost tip of British Raj (now the northernmost tip of Pakistan), most of China except the northwest border, Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia, the extreme northern coast of Australia, northwestern Melanesia, central and western Micronesia, and southeastern Russian Empire.