Solar eclipse of August 16, 1841

A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 16, 1841 during winter in the southern hemisphere. 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 August 16, 1841
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma-1.3193
Magnitude0.4059
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates61.9°S 158°E / -61.9; 158
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse21:20:24
References
Saros152 (3 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9142

It was last of four partial eclipses that took place that year, two in the space of two months each, the last one was on July 1819 and covered a part of the Northern Hemisphere.[1] It was the third solar saros 152 cycle of eclipses[2]

Description

The eclipse was visible in much of the Pacific Ocean and included New Zealand and other smaller islands including Cook, Chatham, Antipodes, and Norfolk Islands and a couple of others, one of them Macquarrie and Lord Howe.

The eclipse was nearly close to New Caledonia and a part of Antarctica.

The eclipse started at sunrise in Tasmania and southeastern Australia and finished at sunset at the Pacific and a tiny part of Western Antarctica. The greatest eclipse was in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles (or kilometers) north of Antarctica at 61.9 S & 158 E at 21:20:24 UTC (8:20 AM local time).[1]

The subsolar marking was in the Pacific north of the 10th parallel north.

See also

References
  1. "Solar eclipse of August 16 1841". NASA. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  2. "Solar Saros 152". NASA. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
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