Solar eclipse of March 5, 1924

20th-century partial solar eclipse

71°54′S 55°36′E / 71.9°S 55.6°E / -71.9; 55.6Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse15:44:20ReferencesSaros148 (16 of 75)Catalog # (SE5000)9336

A partial solar eclipse occurred on March 5, 1924. 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.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1921–1924

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.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1921 to 1924
Descending node		Ascending node
118	April 8, 1921 Annular	123	October 1, 1921 Total
128	March 28, 1922 Annular	133	September 21, 1922 Total
138	March 17, 1923 Annular	143	September 10, 1923 Total
148	March 5, 1924 Partial	153	August 30, 1924 Partial

References

^ 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.

External links

Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Besselian elements

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Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)