Solar eclipse of May 17, 1882

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Solar eclipse of May 17, 1882
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma 0.3269
Magnitude 1.02
Maximum eclipse
Duration110 s (1 min 50 s)
Coordinates 38°24′N61°36′E / 38.4°N 61.6°E / 38.4; 61.6
Max. width of band72 km (45 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse7:36:27
References
Saros 126 (40 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9239

A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Wednesday, May 17, 1882, with a magnitude of 1.0200. 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. Occurring about 4.2 days after perigee (on May 13, 1882, at 2:45 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger. [1]

Contents

The path of totality was visible from parts of modern-day Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China. A partial solar eclipse was also visible for parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Observations

A party of observers gathered in Egypt to watch the eclipse were greatly surprised when they observed a bright streak near to the Sun once totality began. By a remarkable coincidence, the eclipse had coincided with the perihelion passage of a Kreutz comet. The comet would otherwise have gone unnoticed—its sighting during the eclipse was the only observation of it. Photographs of the eclipse revealed that the comet had moved noticeably during the 1m50s eclipse, as would be expected for a comet racing past the Sun at almost 500 km/s. The comet is sometimes referred to as Tewfik, after Tewfik Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt at the time. [2]
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Eclipse details

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]

May 17, 1882 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact1882 May 17 at 04:52:19.5 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1882 May 17 at 05:53:35.0 UTC
First Central Line1882 May 17 at 05:53:43.6 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1882 May 17 at 05:53:52.2 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact1882 May 17 at 07:02:13.9 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1882 May 17 at 07:32:55.8 UTC
Greatest Duration1882 May 17 at 07:35:20.9 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1882 May 17 at 07:36:26.9 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1882 May 17 at 07:41:22.6 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact1882 May 17 at 08:10:31.0 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1882 May 17 at 09:19:01.4 UTC
Last Central Line1882 May 17 at 09:19:07.3 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1882 May 17 at 09:19:13.2 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1882 May 17 at 10:20:37.9 UTC
May 17, 1882 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude1.02000
Eclipse Obscuration1.04040
Gamma0.32688
Sun Right Ascension03h35m45.9s
Sun Declination+19°19'37.1"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'48.5"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension03h35m34.8s
Moon Declination+19°38'26.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter15'52.7"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°58'16.5"
ΔT-5.5 s

Eclipse season

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 May–June 1882
May 17
Descending node (new moon)
June 1
Ascending node (full moon)
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Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 126
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 138

Eclipses in 1882

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 126

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1880–1884

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 solar eclipses on January 11, 1880 (total), July 7, 1880 (annular), and December 31, 1880 (partial) occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on March 27, 1884 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1880 to 1884
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
111December 2, 1880
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Partial
−1.5172116May 27, 1881
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Partial
1.1345
121November 21, 1881
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Annular
−0.8931126 May 17, 1882
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Total
0.3269
131November 10, 1882
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Annular
−0.2056136 May 6, 1883
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Total
−0.4250
141October 30, 1883
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Annular
0.5030146April 25, 1884
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Partial
−1.1365
151October 19, 1884
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Partial
1.1892

Saros 126

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810; hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864; and total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. 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 11 at 6 minutes, 30 seconds on June 26, 1359, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 45 at 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit. [5]

Series members 36–57 occur between 1801 and 2200:
363738
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April 4, 1810
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April 14, 1828
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April 25, 1846
394041
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May 6, 1864
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May 17, 1882
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May 28, 1900
424344
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June 8, 1918
SE1936Jun19T.png
June 19, 1936
SE1954Jun30T.png
June 30, 1954
454647
SE1972Jul10T.png
July 10, 1972
SE1990Jul22T.png
July 22, 1990
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August 1, 2008
484950
SE2026Aug12T.png
August 12, 2026
SE2044Aug23T.png
August 23, 2044
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September 3, 2062
515253
SE2080Sep13P.png
September 13, 2080
SE2098Sep25P.png
September 25, 2098
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October 6, 2116
545556
Saros126 54van72 SE2134Oct17P.jpg
October 17, 2134
Saros126 55van72 SE2152Oct28P.jpg
October 28, 2152
Saros126 56van72 SE2170Nov08P.jpg
November 8, 2170
57
Saros126 57van72 SE2188Nov18P.jpg
November 18, 2188

Metonic series

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 descending node.

22 eclipse events between March 5, 1848 and July 30, 1935
March 5–6December 22–24October 9–11July 29–30May 17–18
108110112114116
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March 5, 1848
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July 29, 1859
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May 17, 1863
118120122124126
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March 6, 1867
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December 22, 1870
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October 10, 1874
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July 29, 1878
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May 17, 1882
128130132134136
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March 5, 1886
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December 22, 1889
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October 9, 1893
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July 29, 1897
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May 18, 1901
138140142144146
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March 6, 1905
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December 23, 1908
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October 10, 1912
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July 30, 1916
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May 18, 1920
148150152154
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March 5, 1924
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December 24, 1927
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October 11, 1931
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July 30, 1935

Tritos series

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.

Series members between 1801 and 2200
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December 21, 1805
(Saros 119)
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November 19, 1816
(Saros 120)
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October 20, 1827
(Saros 121)
SE1838Sep18A.gif
September 18, 1838
(Saros 122)
SE1849Aug18T.gif
August 18, 1849
(Saros 123)
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July 18, 1860
(Saros 124)
SE1871Jun18A.gif
June 18, 1871
(Saros 125)
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May 17, 1882
(Saros 126)
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April 16, 1893
(Saros 127)
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March 17, 1904
(Saros 128)
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February 14, 1915
(Saros 129)
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January 14, 1926
(Saros 130)
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December 13, 1936
(Saros 131)
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November 12, 1947
(Saros 132)
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October 12, 1958
(Saros 133)
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September 11, 1969
(Saros 134)
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August 10, 1980
(Saros 135)
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July 11, 1991
(Saros 136)
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June 10, 2002
(Saros 137)
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May 10, 2013
(Saros 138)
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April 8, 2024
(Saros 139)
SE2035Mar09A.png
March 9, 2035
(Saros 140)
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February 5, 2046
(Saros 141)
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January 5, 2057
(Saros 142)
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December 6, 2067
(Saros 143)
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November 4, 2078
(Saros 144)
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October 4, 2089
(Saros 145)
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September 4, 2100
(Saros 146)
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August 4, 2111
(Saros 147)
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July 4, 2122
(Saros 148)
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June 3, 2133
(Saros 149)
Saros150 24van71 SE2144May03A.jpg
May 3, 2144
(Saros 150)
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April 2, 2155
(Saros 151)
Saros152 21van70 SE2166Mar02T.jpg
March 2, 2166
(Saros 152)
Saros153 18van70 SE2177Jan29A.jpg
January 29, 2177
(Saros 153)
Saros154 16van71 SE2187Dec29A.jpg
December 29, 2187
(Saros 154)
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November 28, 2198
(Saros 155)

Inex series

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
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June 26, 1824
(Saros 124)
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June 6, 1853
(Saros 125)
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May 17, 1882
(Saros 126)
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April 28, 1911
(Saros 127)
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April 7, 1940
(Saros 128)
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March 18, 1969
(Saros 129)
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February 26, 1998
(Saros 130)
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February 6, 2027
(Saros 131)
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January 16, 2056
(Saros 132)
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December 27, 2084
(Saros 133)
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December 8, 2113
(Saros 134)
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November 17, 2142
(Saros 135)
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October 29, 2171
(Saros 136)
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October 9, 2200
(Saros 137)

Notes

  1. "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  2. Marsden, Brian G. (1967). "The sungrazing comet group". The Astronomical Journal. 72 (9): 1170–1183. Bibcode:1967AJ.....72.1170M. doi:10.1086/110396.
  3. "Total Solar Eclipse of 1882 May 17". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 29 August 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 126". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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