Solar eclipse of May 17, 1882
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". 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]
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
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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]
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]
| Event | Time (UTC) |
|---|---|
| First Penumbral External Contact | 1882 May 17 at 04:52:19.5 UTC |
| First Umbral External Contact | 1882 May 17 at 05:53:35.0 UTC |
| First Central Line | 1882 May 17 at 05:53:43.6 UTC |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 1882 May 17 at 05:53:52.2 UTC |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 1882 May 17 at 07:02:13.9 UTC |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 1882 May 17 at 07:32:55.8 UTC |
| Greatest Duration | 1882 May 17 at 07:35:20.9 UTC |
| Greatest Eclipse | 1882 May 17 at 07:36:26.9 UTC |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 1882 May 17 at 07:41:22.6 UTC |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 1882 May 17 at 08:10:31.0 UTC |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 1882 May 17 at 09:19:01.4 UTC |
| Last Central Line | 1882 May 17 at 09:19:07.3 UTC |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 1882 May 17 at 09:19:13.2 UTC |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 1882 May 17 at 10:20:37.9 UTC |
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.02000 |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.04040 |
| Gamma | 0.32688 |
| Sun Right Ascension | 03h35m45.9s |
| Sun Declination | +19°19'37.1" |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'48.5" |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.7" |
| Moon Right Ascension | 03h35m34.8s |
| Moon Declination | +19°38'26.3" |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 15'52.7" |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 0°58'16.5" |
| ΔT | -5.5 s |
Eclipse season
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". 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.
| May 17 Descending node (new moon) |
June 1 Ascending node (full moon) |
|---|---|
| File:SE1882May17T.png | |
| Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 126 |
Penumbral lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 138 |
Related eclipses
Eclipses in 1882
- A total solar eclipse on May 17.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on June 1.
- An annular solar eclipse on November 10.
- A penumbral lunar eclipse on November 25.
Metonic
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 29, 1878
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 5, 1886
Tzolkinex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 6, 1875
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of June 28, 1889
Half-Saros
- Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of May 12, 1873
- Followed by: Lunar eclipse of May 23, 1891
Tritos
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 18, 1871
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 16, 1893
Solar Saros 126
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 6, 1864
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900
Inex
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 6, 1853
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 28, 1911
Triad
- Preceded by: Solar eclipse of July 16, 1795
- Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 18, 1969
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 | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 111 | December 2, 1880 File:SE1880Dec02P.gif Partial |
−1.5172 | 116 | May 27, 1881 File:SE1881May27P.gif Partial |
1.1345 | |
| 121 | November 21, 1881 File:SE1881Nov21A.gif Annular |
−0.8931 | 126 | May 17, 1882 File:SE1882May17T.png Total |
0.3269 | |
| 131 | November 10, 1882 File:SE1882Nov10A.gif Annular |
−0.2056 | 136 | May 6, 1883 File:SE1883May06T.png Total |
−0.4250 | |
| 141 | October 30, 1883 File:SE1883Oct30A.gif Annular |
0.5030 | 146 | April 25, 1884 File:SE1884Apr25P.gif Partial |
−1.1365 | |
| 151 | October 19, 1884 File:SE1884Oct19P.gif 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]
Metonic series
Template:Solar Metonic series 1848–1935
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.
Inex series
Template:Solar Inex series 2027 February 6
Notes
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References
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