Solar eclipse of November 12, 1947
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An annular solar eclipse occurred on November 12, 1947. 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. Annularity was visible from the Pacific Ocean, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil.
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Solar eclipse of November 12, 1947 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.3743 |
Magnitude | 0.965 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 239 s (3 min 59 s) |
Coordinates | 3°N 117.4°W / 3; -117.4 |
Max. width of band | 135 km (84 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 20:05:37 |
References | |
Saros | 132 (42 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9393 |
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