Solar_eclipse_of_February_23,_1906

Solar eclipse of February 23, 1906

Solar eclipse of February 23, 1906

20th-century partial solar eclipse

A partial solar eclipse occurred on February 23, 1906.[1][2][3] 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.

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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.[4]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    "Page 37". The Albury Banner, Wodonga Express and Riverina Stock Journal. Albury, New South Wales, Australia. 1906-02-23. p. 37. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. [2]
    "Partial eclipse of the sun". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 1906-02-24. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. [3]
    "Partial sun eclipse". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia. 1906-02-24. p. 11. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. [4]
    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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