Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908

Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.1389
Magnitude	0.9655
Maximum eclipse
Duration	240 s (4 min 0 s)
Coordinates	31°24′N 67°12′W / 31.4°N 67.2°W / 31.4; -67.2
Max. width of band	126 km (78 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	16:29:51
References
Saros	135 (33 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9300

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, June 28, 1908,^[1][2][3][4] with a magnitude of 0.9655. 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. Occurring about 4 days before apogee (on July 2, 1908, at 16:30 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.^[5]

The annular eclipse was visible in North America, including a part of central Mexico around Mexico City; Orlando; and Daytona Beach, Florida in the United States. In Africa, it included Rosso, Mauritania, the northernmost part of Senegal, Bamako and the southwestern French Sudan (now Mali), the southwesternmost part of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and northern British Gold Coast (now Ghana). A partial eclipse was visible for parts of northern South America, most of North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, North Africa, and Western Europe.