| Solar eclipse of April 8, 1921 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.8869 |
| Magnitude | 0.9753 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 1m 50s |
| Coordinates | 64.5N 5.6E |
| Max. width of band | 192 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 9:15:01 |
| References | |
| Saros | 118 (63 of 72) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9330 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 1921. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
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This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||
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| 118 | April 8, 1921 Annular |
123 | October 1, 1921 Total |
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| 128 | March 28, 1922 Annular |
133 | September 21, 1922 Total |
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| 138 | March 17, 1923 Annular |
143 | September 10, 1923 Total |
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| 148 | March 5, 1924 Partial |
153 | August 30, 1924 Partial |
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