| Solar eclipse of December 3, 1918 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.2387 |
| Magnitude | 0.9383 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 7m 6s |
| Coordinates | 36.1S 53.7W |
| Max. width of band | 236 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 15:22:02 |
| References | |
| Saros | 131 (45 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9325 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on December 3, 1918. 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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It is a part of Saros cycle 131, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 1, 1125. It contains total eclipses from March 27, 1522 through May 30, 1612 and hybrid eclipses from June 10, 1630 through July 24, 1702, and annular eclipses from August 4, 1720 through June 18, 2243. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on September 2, 2369. The longest duration of totality was only 58 seconds on May 30, 1612.[1]
Series members 46-56 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
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December 3, 1918 |
December 13, 1936 |
December 25, 1954 |
| 49 | 50 | 51 |
January 4, 1973 |
January 15, 1991 |
January 26, 2009 |
| 52 | 53 | 54 |
February 6, 2027 |
February 16, 2045 |
February 28, 2063 |
| 55 | 56 | |
March 10, 2081 |
March 21, 2099 |
