| Solar eclipse of January 14, 1945 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | -0.4937 |
| Magnitude | 0.997 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 0m 15s |
| Coordinates | 51.1S 110.3E |
| Max. width of band | 12 km |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 5:01:43 |
| References | |
| Saros | 140 (25 of 71) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9386 |
An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 14, 1945. 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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| 115 | August 12, 1942 Partial |
120 | February 4, 1943 Total |
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| 125 | August 1, 1943 Annular |
130 | January 25, 1944 Total |
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| 135 | July 20, 1944 Annular |
140 | January 14, 1945 Annular |
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| 145 | July 9, 1945 Total |
150 | January 3, 1946 Partial |
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| 155 | June 29, 1946 Partial |
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