Solar eclipse of January 14, 1945

Solar eclipse of January 14, 1945
	320px Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.4937
Magnitude	0.997
Maximum eclipse
Duration	15 sec (0 m 15 s)
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Max. width of band	12 km (7.5 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	5:01:43
References
Saros	140 (25 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9386

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An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 14, 1945. 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 (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1942-1946

Each member 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.

Note: The partial solar eclipse on September 10, 1942 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1942-1946
Ascending node		Descending node
115	August 12, 1942 Partial	120	February 4, 1943 Total
125	August 1, 1943 Annular	130	January 25, 1944 Total
135	July 20, 1944 150px Annular	140	January 14, 1945 150px Annular
145	July 9, 1945 Total	150	January 3, 1946 150px Partial
155	June 29, 1946 150px Partial