Solar eclipse of August 11, 2018

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Saturday, August 11, 2018, with a magnitude of 0.7368. 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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Solar eclipse of August 11, 2018”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Auvo Korpi from Huhtamo, Finland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.