A partial
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six mo ...
occurred at the Moon’s descending node of the orbit on September 11, 2007.
A
solar eclipse
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six mo ...
occurs when the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width ...
passes between
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surf ...
and the
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared rad ...
, 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.
Eclipse season
An eclipse season is the period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Eclipse seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of the Moon's tilted orbital plane ( tilted five degrees to the Earth's orbital plane), just as Earth's we ...
This is the second eclipse this season, the first being the
August 2007 lunar eclipse.
Images
Gallery
Eclipse (1360220276).jpg, Niterói, Brazil, 11:21 UTC
Eclipse parcial do sol - 11 09 2007 (1386625631).jpg, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...
, 11:40 UTC
Giumaiolini - Partial Solar Eclipse - Brazil - 2007 (by).jpg, Composition from Campinas, Brazil
Related eclipses
Eclipses of 2007
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A total lunar eclipse on March 3.
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A partial solar eclipse on March 19.
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A total lunar eclipse on August 28.
* A partial solar eclipse on September 11.
Solar eclipses 2004–2007
Metonic series
References
NASA graphicsNASA map
External links
Partial Solar Eclipse, September 11, 2007
from Buenos Aires, Argentina by Jay Pasachoff
Jay Myron Pasachoff (July 1, 1943 – November 20, 2022) was an American astronomer. Pasachoff was Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and the author of textbooks and tradebooks in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and othe ...
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