Solar eclipse of May 26, 1854

An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 26, 1854. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

Solar eclipse of May 26, 1854
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Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.3918
Magnitude0.9551
Maximum eclipse
Duration272 sec (4 m 32 s)
Coordinates43.3°N 140.1°W / 43.3; -140.1
Max. width of band178 km (111 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:42:53
References
Saros135 (30 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9173

Visibility

The annular path crossed close to the boundary between the United States and Canada.

Observations


Annularity Daguerrotyped by Stephen Alexander from Ogdensburgh, New York

Partiality by Langenheim Brothers.

It is a part of Solar Saros 135.

Solar eclipse set repeats every 6 synodic months (about 177.183 days).

Saros 135

It is a part of Saros cycle 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511 through February 24, 2305, hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323 and March 18, 2341 and total eclipses from March 29, 2359 through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431.

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