Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012

When

21 May 2012

Kind

Event

Coordinates

46.09° N, 176.28° E

Description

A rare annular solar eclipse occurs, visible from East Asia, the North Pacific, and the Western United States.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Solar eclipse of May 20, 2012.

21st-century annular solar eclipse

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Sunday, May 20 and Monday, May 21, 2012, with a magnitude of 0.9439. 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.

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