Solar eclipse of November 23, 1946
# Solar eclipse of November 23, 1946

A partial solar eclipse occurred on November 23, 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 |

### Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1901 and 2100 :

| March 29, 1903 (Saros 118) | February 25, 1914 (Saros 119) | January 24, 1925 (Saros 120) |
| - | - | - |
| December 25, 1935 (Saros 121) | November 23, 1946 (Saros 122) | October 23, 1957 (Saros 123) |
| September 22, 1968 (Saros 124) | August 22, 1979 (Saros 125) | July 22, 1990 (Saros 126) |
| June 21, 2001 (Saros 127) | May 20, 2012 (Saros 128) | April 20, 2023 (Saros 129) |
| March 20, 2034 (Saros 130) | February 16, 2045 (Saros 131) | January 16, 2056 (Saros 132) |
| December 17, 2066 (Saros 133) | November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) | October 14, 2088 (Saros 135) |
| September 14, 2099 (Saros 136) | |
