Solar eclipse of October 19, 1819

A partial solar eclipse occurred on October 19, 1819 during spring. 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.

Solar eclipse of October 19, 1819
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma-1.3226
Magnitude0.4085
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates61.5°S 16.4°E / -61.5; 16.4
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse3:27:17
References
Saros150 (6 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)9088

It was one of four partial eclipses that took place that year, each two in two months, the last one was on September 19 and covered a part of the Northern Hemisphere.[1]

Description

The eclipse was visible in much of the southwestern portion of the Indian Ocean which included several island such as Kergueren and New Amsterdam and a small part of the Atlantic, it was also visible in much of Antarctica (at the time parts had a 24-hour daylight) and left the northeast corner, much of the peninsula and edges within the Trans-Antarctic Mountains in the west not visible, the eclipse was nearly close to the island of Madagascar.

The eclipse close to Madagascar and then into the Indian Ocean and finished in the west of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains close to Ross Sea.

It showed about up to 10% obscurity in Northern Antarctica, about 20% within the South Pole and 40% in northcentral part of Antarctica.. The greatest eclipse was in the Pacific Ocean around the area separating the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans offshore from Antarctica at 61.5 S and 16.4 E at 3:27:17 UTC (4:27:17 local time) at the furthermost area of the Southwestern Hemisphere (sometimes as the Southwestern Tetrasphere).[1]

The subsolar marking was east of Portuguese Timor (now East Timor) and the island of Timor.

See also

References
  1. "Solar eclipse of October 19, 1819". NASA. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
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