Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896

Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896
Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.6964
Magnitude	1.0392
Maximum eclipse
Duration	163 sec (2 m 43 s)
Coordinates	54°24′N 132°12′E / 54.4°N 132.2°E
Max. width of band	182 km (113 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	5:09:00
References
Saros	124 (48 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9272

A total solar eclipse occurred on August 9, 1896. 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 total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It was visible across Europe, Asia, and Japan.

It is a part of solar Saros 124.

This event was the subject of the first organized eclipse expedition by the British Astronomical Association. A group of 165 amateur and profession astronomers sailed from Tilbury, England on July 25th, heading toward Vadsø, Norway.^[1] Unfortunately this expedition failed to produce any usable results as they were frustrated by the weather conditions at the time of the eclipse.^[2] However, a smaller expedition to Novaya Zemlya on Sir George Baden-Powell's yacht Otario met with success.^[1]

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References[]

^ ^a ^b Marriott, R. A. (June 1991). "Norway 1896: the BAA's first organised eclipse expedition". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 101 (3): 162–170. Bibcode:1991JBAA..101..162M.
^ "Expedition for the Observation of the Total Solar Eclipse, August 9th, 1896". Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association. 6: 1–4. 1898. Bibcode:1898MmBAA...6....1.

External links[]

NASA graphics
- Googlemap
- NASA Besselian elements
Corona and Coronet: Being a narrative of the Amherst Eclipse Expedition to Japan, in Mr. James's Schooner-Yacht Coronet, to Observe the Sun's Total Obscuration, 9th August, 1896, by Mabel Loomis Todd, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publishers, 1898
Mabel Loomis Todd (1900). Total Eclipses of the Sun. Little, Brown.
Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896 in Russia

[Marrioss1991-1] Marriott, R. A. (June 1991). "Norway 1896: the BAA's first organised eclipse expedition". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 101 (3): 162–170. Bibcode:1991JBAA..101..162M.

[2] "Expedition for the Observation of the Total Solar Eclipse, August 9th, 1896". Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association. 6: 1–4. 1898. Bibcode:1898MmBAA...6....1.

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