Solar eclipse of April 3, 1848

Partial solar eclipse April 3, 1848

71°48′S 89°00′W / 71.8°S 89°W / -71.8; -89Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse22:49:07ReferencesSaros146 (18 of 76)Catalog # (SE5000)9158

A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 3, 1848, during fall. 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 of four partial eclipses that took place that year, each two in two months, the last one was on March 5 in the Northern Hemisphere, the next one was in a smaller portion of the same location on August 28, 1848.^[1] It was a solar saros 146 cycle^[2]

Description

The eclipse was visible in the Pacific Ocean and included the northeast and northwestern Antarctica especially a part of the west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The eclipse started at sunrise offshore from Antarctica where the Indian and the Pacific Ocean divide and ended at sunset in the peninsula and offshore from Chile.

It showed about up to 15-30% obscuration in northern Antarctica within the 180th meridian, and from 48% to 58% obscuration in the peninsular portion.

10% obscurity in northern Antarctica and 20% at the Antarctic peninsula. The greatest eclipse was at the Antarctic Peninsula at 71.8 S, 89 W at 22:49 UTC (4:49 PM local time).^[1]

The subsolar marking was north of the 5th parallel north in the Pacific around the Palmyra Atoll.

References

^ ^a ^b "Solar eclipse of April 3, 1848". NASA. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
^ "Solar Saros 146". NASA. Retrieved March 18, 2017.

External links

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Solar eclipse data

Solar eclipses

Features

Baily's beads (diamond ring)
Shadow bands
Solar prominence
Stellar corona

Lists of eclipses

By era	Antiquity Middle Ages Modern era 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd Future
Saros series (list)	109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162
Visibility	Australia British Isles China Israel Philippines Russia Turkey Ukraine United States
Historical	Mursili's eclipse (1312 BC) Assyrian eclipse (763 BC) Eclipse of Thales (585 BC) Muhammad's eclipse (632 AD)