Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An annular solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1951, with a magnitude of 0.9896. 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 New Zealand on March 8 (Thursday), and northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and San Andrés Island in Colombia on March 7 (Wednesday).
Solar eclipse of March 7, 1951 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | −0.242 |
Magnitude | 0.9896 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 59 s (0 min 59 s) |
Coordinates | 17.7°S 123.5°W / -17.7; -123.5 |
Max. width of band | 38 km (24 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 20:53:40 |
References | |
Saros | 129 (48 of 80) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9400 |