| Solar eclipse of December 14, 1917 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.9157 |
| Magnitude | 0.9791 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 1m 17s |
| Coordinates | 88S 124.8E |
| Max. width of band | 189 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 9:27:20 |
| References | |
| Saros | 121 (55 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9323 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 14, 1917. 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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| 111 | December 24, 1916 Partial |
116 | June 19, 1917 Partial |
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| 121 | December 14, 1917 Annular |
126 | June 8, 1918 Total |
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| 131 | December 3, 1918 Annular |
136 | May 29, 1919 Total |
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| 141 | November 22, 1919 Annular |
146 | May 18, 1920 Partial |
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| 151 | November 10, 1920 Partial |
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