Solar eclipse of December 22, 1870

Solar eclipse of December 22, 1870
Solar eclipse of December 22, 1870
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.8585
Magnitude	1.0248
Maximum eclipse
Duration	131 sec (2 m 11 s)
Coordinates	35°42′N 1°30′W / 35.7°N 1.5°W
Max. width of band	165 km (103 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	12:27:33
References
Saros	120 (53 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9213

A total solar eclipse occurred on December 22, 1870. 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. Totality was visible from southern Portugal and Spain, across northern Algeria, then crossing Sicily, Greece, Bulgaria, and ending in the south-west of the Russian Empire.

Observations[]

From Syracuse by Captain G. L. Tupman, R.M.A.

Related eclipses[]

It is a part of solar Saros 120.

References[]

NASA chart graphics
Googlemap
NASA Besselian elements
Mabel Loomis Todd (1900). Total Eclipses of the Sun. Little, Brown.
Reports on observations of the total solar eclipse of December 22, 1870 By United States Naval Observatory, Simon Newcomb, Asaph Hall, William Harkness, John Robie Eastman
Solar Eclipse seen from Jerez in 1870
The sun was crowned in Jerez