title: Solar eclipse of April 18, 1931
text: # Solar eclipse of April 18, 1931
  
  A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 18, 1931. 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 1928–1931
  
  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 1928–1931 :
  
  | Ascending node | Ascending node | Descending node | Descending node |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 117 | May 19, 1928 Total (non-central) | 122 | November 12, 1928 Partial |
  | 127 | May 9, 1929 Total | 132 | November 1, 1929 Annular |
  | 137 | April 28, 1930 Hybrid | 142 | October 21, 1930 Total |
  | 147 | April 18, 1931 Partial | 152 | October 11, 1931 Partial |
  