Solar eclipse of May 30, 1946
# Solar eclipse of May 30, 1946

A partial solar eclipse occurred on May 30, 1946. 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.

## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses 1946–1949

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1946–1949 :

| Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node |
| - | - | - | - |
| 117 | 1946 May 30 Partial | 122 | 1946 November 23 Partial |
| 127 | 1947 May 20 Total | 132 | 1947 November 12 Annular |
| 137 | 1948 May 9 Annular | 142 | 1948 November 1 Total |
| 147 | 1949 April 28 Partial | 152 | 1949 October 21 Partial |
