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Solar eclipse of October 19, 1865

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Solar eclipse of October 19, 1865
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma0.5366
Magnitude0.9263
Maximum eclipse
Duration567 s (9 min 27 s)
Coordinates21°18′N 60°12′W / 21.3°N 60.2°W / 21.3; -60.2
Max. width of band326 km (203 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse16:21:14
References
Saros141 (15 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9200

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Thursday, October 19, 1865, with a magnitude of 0.9263. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring only about 9 hours after apogee (on October 19, 1865, at 7:05 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.[1]

The path of annularity was visible from parts of modern-day Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali. A partial solar eclipse was also visible for parts of North America, Central America, the Caribbean, northern South America, Western Europe, West Africa.

Description

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The greatest eclipse was at 16:21:14 UTC (12:21 local time) at 21.3°N 60.2°W northeast of Antigua and Barbuda and lasted 9 min 27 sec. The maximum width of band was 326 km (203 mi).[2]

The eclipse was visible in North America (except for the Yukon, Alaska and the northernmost part of Greenland), Central America, the Caribbean South America including, the northern parts of Peru and Bolivia and most of Brazil, the westernmost parts of Africa and Europe (westernmost Spain and Portugal, Ireland and parts of Scotland). Areas that were in the edge of the eclipse included the Galapagos Islands. In North America, it occurred in the morning, in South America, midday and in Africa and Europe, near the evening hours.[2]

Areas that were inside the umbral portion included the United States such as parts of the north of the state Oregon, Washington Territory (now state), close to the 49th parallel and distant from the Pacific, Idaho, the Cheyenne and the Lakota areas, Nebraska Territory (now state), the states of Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, western Kentucky, much of Tennessee, the northeast corner of Alabama, parts of the north of Georgia, the west of North Carolina and nearly all of South Carolina. Off the coast of Africa, it included the Cape Verdean Islands of Sotavento and Boa Vista Island, at the time a Portuguese colony. In Africa, it included most of Senegal, at the time a French colony, southern Agawedj (or Agaouedj, now Mauritania) and parts of Mali.

Other

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In many parts of Brazil except for the south, it was the third consecutive solar eclipse that took place, all of it appeared as partial, the last two were on October 30, 1864 and April 25, 1865, both with an umbral portion in one part.

Eclipse details

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Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.[3]

October 19, 1865 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 1865 October 19 at 13:25:25.9 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 1865 October 19 at 14:37:23.4 UTC
First Central Line 1865 October 19 at 14:41:00.2 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 1865 October 19 at 14:44:39.3 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 1865 October 19 at 16:03:30.6 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 1865 October 19 at 16:21:13.4 UTC
Greatest Duration 1865 October 19 at 16:26:46.3 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 1865 October 19 at 16:27:39.9 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 1865 October 19 at 17:58:00.8 UTC
Last Central Line 1865 October 19 at 18:01:39.5 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 1865 October 19 at 18:05:15.8 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 1865 October 19 at 19:17:08.8 UTC
October 19, 1865 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 0.92627
Eclipse Obscuration 0.85798
Gamma 0.53659
Sun Right Ascension 13h37m34.8s
Sun Declination -10°09'34.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter 16'04.2"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.8"
Moon Right Ascension 13h38m06.1s
Moon Declination -09°41'45.0"
Moon Semi-Diameter 14'42.0"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 0°53'56.8"
ΔT 5.2 s

Eclipse season

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This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight.

Eclipse season of October 1865
October 4
Descending node (full moon)
October 19
Ascending node (new moon)
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 115
Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 141
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Eclipses in 1865

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Metonic

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Tzolkinex

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Half-Saros

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Tritos

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Solar Saros 141

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Inex

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Triad

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Solar eclipses of 1862–1866

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This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[4]

The partial solar eclipses on June 27, 1862 and December 21, 1862 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on March 16, 1866 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1862 to 1866
Ascending node   Descending node
Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma
111 November 21, 1862

Partial
−1.5052 116 May 17, 1863

Partial
1.0627
121 November 11, 1863

Annular
−0.8760 126 May 6, 1864

Hybrid
0.2622
131 October 30, 1864

Annular
−0.1816 136 April 25, 1865

Total
−0.4826
141 October 19, 1865

Annular
0.5366 146 April 15, 1866

Partial
−1.1846
151 October 8, 1866

Partial
1.2296

Saros 141

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This eclipse is a part of Saros series 141, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 70 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on May 19, 1613. It contains annular eclipses from August 4, 1739 through October 14, 2640. There are no hybrid or total eclipses in this set. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on June 13, 2857. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.

The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 20 at 12 minutes, 9 seconds on December 14, 1955. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit.[5]

Series members 12–33 occur between 1801 and 2200:
12 13 14

September 17, 1811

September 28, 1829

October 9, 1847
15 16 17

October 19, 1865

October 30, 1883

November 11, 1901
18 19 20

November 22, 1919

December 2, 1937

December 14, 1955
21 22 23

December 24, 1973

January 4, 1992

January 15, 2010
24 25 26

January 26, 2028

February 5, 2046

February 17, 2064
27 28 29

February 27, 2082

March 10, 2100

March 22, 2118
30 31 32

April 1, 2136

April 12, 2154

April 23, 2172
33

May 4, 2190

Metonic series

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The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's ascending node.

25 eclipse events between March 14, 1801 and August 7, 1888
March 14–15 December 31–January 1 October 19–20 August 7 May 26–27
107 109 111 113 115

March 14, 1801

January 1, 1805

October 19, 1808

August 7, 1812

May 27, 1816
117 119 121 123 125

March 14, 1820

January 1, 1824

October 20, 1827

August 7, 1831

May 27, 1835
127 129 131 133 135

March 15, 1839

December 31, 1842

October 20, 1846

August 7, 1850

May 26, 1854
137 139 141 143 145

March 15, 1858

December 31, 1861

October 19, 1865

August 7, 1869

May 26, 1873
147 149 151 153

March 15, 1877

December 31, 1880

October 19, 1884

August 7, 1888

Tritos series

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This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

The partial solar eclipse on November 4, 2116 (part of Saros 164) is also a part of this series but is not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2029

March 24, 1811
(Saros 136)

February 21, 1822
(Saros 137)

January 20, 1833
(Saros 138)

December 21, 1843
(Saros 139)

November 20, 1854
(Saros 140)

October 19, 1865
(Saros 141)

September 17, 1876
(Saros 142)

August 19, 1887
(Saros 143)

July 18, 1898
(Saros 144)

June 17, 1909
(Saros 145)

May 18, 1920
(Saros 146)

April 18, 1931
(Saros 147)

March 16, 1942
(Saros 148)

February 14, 1953
(Saros 149)

January 14, 1964
(Saros 150)

December 13, 1974
(Saros 151)

November 12, 1985
(Saros 152)

October 12, 1996
(Saros 153)

September 11, 2007
(Saros 154)

August 11, 2018
(Saros 155)

July 11, 2029
(Saros 156)

Inex series

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This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1801 and 2200

November 29, 1807
(Saros 139)

November 9, 1836
(Saros 140)

October 19, 1865
(Saros 141)

September 29, 1894
(Saros 142)

September 10, 1923
(Saros 143)

August 20, 1952
(Saros 144)

July 31, 1981
(Saros 145)

July 11, 2010
(Saros 146)

June 21, 2039
(Saros 147)

May 31, 2068
(Saros 148)

May 11, 2097
(Saros 149)

April 22, 2126
(Saros 150)

April 2, 2155
(Saros 151)

March 12, 2184
(Saros 152)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Solar eclipse of October 19, 1865". NASA. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  3. ^ "Annular Solar Eclipse of 1865 Oct 19". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  4. ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  5. ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 141". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
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