Solar eclipse of May 26, 1854

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Solar eclipse of May 26, 1854
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Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma 0.3918
Magnitude 0.9551
Maximum eclipse
Duration272 s (4 min 32 s)
Coordinates 43°18′N140°06′W / 43.3°N 140.1°W / 43.3; -140.1
Max. width of band178 km (111 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse20:42:53
References
Saros 135 (30 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9173

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Friday, May 26, 1854, with a magnitude of 0.9551. 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 about 3.2 days before apogee (on May 30, 1854, at 2:25 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller. [1]

Contents

The path of annularity was visible from parts of the modern-day Marshall Islands, southern Canada, Washington, northern Idaho, northern Montana, northern North Dakota, Minnesota, the upper peninsula of Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. A partial solar eclipse was also visible for parts of Northeast Asia, northern Oceania, Hawaii, North America, Central America, the Caribbean, far northern South America, and northern Scandinavia.

Visibility

The annular path crossed close to the boundary between the United States and Canada.

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Observations

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Annularity Daguerrotyped by Stephen Alexander from Ogdensburgh, New York
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Partiality by Langenheim Brothers.

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. [2]

May 26, 1854 Solar Eclipse Times
EventTime (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact1854 May 26 at 17:45:31.9 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1854 May 26 at 18:52:54.1 UTC
First Central Line1854 May 26 at 18:55:03.1 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1854 May 26 at 18:57:12.6 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact1854 May 26 at 20:20:41.5 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1854 May 26 at 20:42:52.6 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1854 May 26 at 20:47:29.4 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1854 May 26 at 20:56:05.1 UTC
Greatest Duration1854 May 26 at 20:59:47.7 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact1854 May 26 at 21:04:43.2 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1854 May 26 at 22:28:22.6 UTC
Last Central Line1854 May 26 at 22:30:34.0 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1854 May 26 at 22:32:45.0 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1854 May 26 at 23:40:11.8 UTC
May 26, 1854 Solar Eclipse Parameters
ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.95510
Eclipse Obscuration0.91221
Gamma0.39177
Sun Right Ascension04h13m05.4s
Sun Declination+21°11'11.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'46.7"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension04h12m40.1s
Moon Declination+21°31'39.9"
Moon Semi-Diameter14'51.7"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°54'32.6"
ΔT7.1 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 1854
May 12
Descending node (full moon)
May 26
Ascending node (new moon)
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Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 109
Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 135

Eclipses in 1854

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 135

Inex

Triad

Solar eclipses of 1852–1855

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. [3]

The partial solar eclipse on January 21, 1852 occurs in the previous lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1852 to 1855
Ascending node Descending node
SarosMapGammaSarosMapGamma
115June 17, 1852
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Partial
−1.1111120December 11, 1852
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Total
0.8551
125June 6, 1853
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Annular
−0.3686130 November 30, 1853
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Total
0.1763
135 May 26, 1854
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Annular
0.3918140November 20, 1854
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Hybrid
−0.5179
145May 16, 1855
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Partial
1.1249150 November 9, 1855
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Partial
−1.2767

Saros 135

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511 through February 24, 2305; hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323 and March 18, 2341; and total eclipses from March 29, 2359 through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. 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 16 at 10 minutes, 41 seconds on December 24, 1601, and the longest duration of totality will be produced by member 62 at 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit. [4]

Series members 28–49 occur between 1801 and 2200:
282930
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May 5, 1818
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May 15, 1836
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May 26, 1854
313233
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June 6, 1872
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June 17, 1890
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June 28, 1908
343536
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July 9, 1926
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July 20, 1944
SE1962Jul31A.png
July 31, 1962
373839
SE1980Aug10A.png
August 10, 1980
SE1998Aug22A.png
August 22, 1998
SE2016Sep01A.png
September 1, 2016
404242
SE2034Sep12A.png
September 12, 2034
SE2052Sep22A.png
September 22, 2052
SE2070Oct04A.png
October 4, 2070
434445
SE2088Oct14A.png
October 14, 2088
SE2106Oct26A.png
October 26, 2106
SE2124Nov06A.png
November 6, 2124
464748
SE2142Nov17A.png
November 17, 2142
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November 27, 2160
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December 9, 2178
49
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December 19, 2196

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 ascending node.

25 eclipse events between March 14, 1801 and August 7, 1888
March 14–15December 31–January 1October 19–20August 7May 26–27
107109111113115
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March 14, 1801
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January 1, 1805
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October 19, 1808
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August 7, 1812
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May 27, 1816
117119121123125
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March 14, 1820
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January 1, 1824
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October 20, 1827
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August 7, 1831
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May 27, 1835
127129131133135
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March 15, 1839
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December 31, 1842
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October 20, 1846
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August 7, 1850
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May 26, 1854
137139141143145
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March 15, 1858
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December 31, 1861
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October 19, 1865
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August 7, 1869
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May 26, 1873
147149151153
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March 15, 1877
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December 31, 1880
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October 19, 1884
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August 7, 1888

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.

The partial solar eclipses on December 7, 2170 (part of Saros 164) and November 7, 2181 (part of Saros 165) are also a part of this series but are not included in the table below.

Series members between 1801 and 2105
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September 28, 1810
(Saros 131)
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August 27, 1821
(Saros 132)
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July 27, 1832
(Saros 133)
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June 27, 1843
(Saros 134)
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May 26, 1854
(Saros 135)
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April 25, 1865
(Saros 136)
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March 25, 1876
(Saros 137)
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February 22, 1887
(Saros 138)
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January 22, 1898
(Saros 139)
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December 23, 1908
(Saros 140)
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November 22, 1919
(Saros 141)
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October 21, 1930
(Saros 142)
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September 21, 1941
(Saros 143)
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August 20, 1952
(Saros 144)
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July 20, 1963
(Saros 145)
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June 20, 1974
(Saros 146)
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May 19, 1985
(Saros 147)
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April 17, 1996
(Saros 148)
SE2007Mar19P.png
March 19, 2007
(Saros 149)
SE2018Feb15P.png
February 15, 2018
(Saros 150)
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January 14, 2029
(Saros 151)
SE2039Dec15T.png
December 15, 2039
(Saros 152)
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November 14, 2050
(Saros 153)
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October 13, 2061
(Saros 154)
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September 12, 2072
(Saros 155)
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August 13, 2083
(Saros 156)
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July 12, 2094
(Saros 157)
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June 12, 2105
(Saros 158)

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 16, 1825
(Saros 134)
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May 26, 1854
(Saros 135)
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May 6, 1883
(Saros 136)
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April 17, 1912
(Saros 137)
SE1941Mar27A.png
March 27, 1941
(Saros 138)
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March 7, 1970
(Saros 139)
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February 16, 1999
(Saros 140)
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January 26, 2028
(Saros 141)
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January 5, 2057
(Saros 142)
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December 16, 2085
(Saros 143)
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November 27, 2114
(Saros 144)
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November 7, 2143
(Saros 145)
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October 17, 2172
(Saros 146)

Notes

  1. "Moon Distances for London, United Kingdom, England". timeanddate. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  2. "Annular Solar Eclipse of 1854 May 26". EclipseWise.com. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  3. 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.
  4. "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 135". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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