Solar eclipse of August 12, 1942
20th-century partial solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A partial solar eclipse occurred on Wednesday, August 12, 1942. 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 72nd of 72 solar eclipses in Saros 115 and the final eclipse.