title: Solar eclipse of September 10, 1942
text: # Solar eclipse of September 10, 1942
  
  A partial solar eclipse occurred on Thursday, September 10, 1942. 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 1939–1942
  
  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 1939–1942 :
  
  | Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Saros | Map | Saros | Map |
  | 118 | April 19, 1939 Annular | 123 | October 12, 1939 Total |
  | 128 | April 7, 1940 Annular | 133 | October 1, 1940 Total |
  | 138 | March 27, 1941 Annular | 143 | September 21, 1941 Total |
  | 148 | March 16, 1942 Partial | 153 | September 10, 1942 Partial |
  | The partial solar eclipse on August 12, 1942 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set. |||||
  