Solar eclipse of February 14, 1915


An annular solar eclipse occurred on February 14, 1915, also known as “The 1915 Valentine’s Day eclipse”. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Annularity was visible from Australia, Papua in Dutch East Indies, German New Guinea, and South Pacific Mandate in Japan.

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Solar eclipses of 1913–1917

Saros 129

Tritos series