Solar eclipse of August 6, 1823

A partial solar eclipse occurred on August 6, 1823 in the midwinter season. 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. It was the second eclipse of solar saros 152.

Solar eclipse of August 6, 1823
Map
Type of eclipse
NaturePartial
Gamma-1.3871
Magnitude0.2753
Maximum eclipse
Coordinates62.5°S 79.3°W / -62.5; -79.3
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse13:45:42
References
Saros152 (2 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9098

It was one of four partial eclipses that took place that year, each two in two months, the last one was on July 8 and covered a part of the Northern Hemisphere.[1]

Description

The eclipse was visible in the southernmost portion of South America including southern Uruguay (then part of Brazil), the middle and the south of newly independent Argentina (then La Plata) and Chile along with Patagonia (then independent) and Tierra del Fuego and also in the northernmost portions of Antarctica with the peninsula and its islands and the Falkland Islands (sometimes as Malvinas). It showed to 10% obscurity in the area of Bahía Blanca, and up to about 30% in the south.

The eclipse started in the Pacific west of Puerto Montt in the early morning hours and ended near another part of northern Antarctica east of the peninsula in the afternoon. The greatest eclipse was in the Pacific Ocean west of the ocean line and halfway between South America and Antarctica which happened at 13:45 UTC (08:19 local time) at 62.5 S and 79.3 W.[1]

The sub-solar marking was northwest of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde, nearly midway with the other islands.

See also

References
  1. "Solar eclipse of August 6, 1823". NASA. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
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