Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906

Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906
Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Partial
Gamma	1.3731
Magnitude	0.3147
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates	70°48′N 66°24′W / 70.8°N 66.4°W
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	1:12:50
References
Saros	153 (3 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9295

A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 20, 1906^[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.^[3]

Related eclipses[edit]

Solar eclipses 1902–1907[edit]

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]

Solar eclipse series sets from 1902 to 1907
Descending node		Ascending node
108	April 8, 1902 Partial	113	October 1, 1902
118	March 29, 1903 Annular	123	September 21, 1903 Total
128	March 17, 1904 Annular	133	September 9, 1904 Total
138	March 6, 1905 Annular	143	August 30, 1905 Total
148	February 23, 1906 Partial	153	August 20, 1906 Partial

Notes[edit]

^ "DIDN'T SEE ANY ECLIPSE OF THE SUN". The Eugene Guard. Eugene, Oregon. 1906-08-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "ECLIPSE DID NOT AFFECT THE RAYS OF OLD SOL IN OMAHA". Omaha World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska. 1906-08-20. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-01 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "What Is a Solar Eclipse?". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
^ 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.