Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_1902

Solar eclipse of April 8, 1902

Solar eclipse of April 8, 1902

20th-century partial solar eclipse

A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 1902.[1][2] 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. This was the 76th and final event from Solar Saros 108.

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Solar eclipses 1902–1907

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.[3]

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Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days).

More information 22 eclipse events, progressing from north to south between April 8, 1902, and August 31, 1989:, April 7–8 ...

Notes

  1. [1]
    "There was an eclipse of the sun to-day". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 1902-04-08. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. [2]
    "City items". The Dayton Herald. Dayton, Ohio. 1902-04-09. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. [3]
    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.

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