Solar eclipse of May 6, 1883

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Solar eclipse". A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Sunday, May 6, and Monday, May 7, 1883, with a magnitude of 1.0634. 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 1.1 days after perigee (on May 5, 1883, at 20:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[1]

The path of totality was visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean. A partial solar eclipse was also visible for parts of eastern Australia, Oceania, Hawaii, Central America, and western South America.

Observations

An expedition of American astronomers traveled from Peru to Caroline Island aboard the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". to observe the total solar eclipse. A French expedition also observed the eclipse from Caroline, and the United States Navy mapped the atoll.[2] Johann Palisa, a member of the expedition, discovered an asteroid later that year which he named Carolina "in remembrance of his visit to [the] island".[3]

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.[4]

May 6, 1883 Solar Eclipse Times
Event Time (UTC)
First Penumbral External Contact 1883 May 6 at 19:21:10.1 UTC
First Umbral External Contact 1883 May 6 at 20:18:44.5 UTC
First Central Line 1883 May 6 at 20:20:08.5 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact 1883 May 6 at 20:21:32.7 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact 1883 May 6 at 21:34:45.7 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction 1883 May 6 at 21:45:09.2 UTC
Greatest Eclipse 1883 May 6 at 21:53:48.9 UTC
Greatest Duration 1883 May 6 at 21:56:03.6 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction 1883 May 6 at 21:58:10.3 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact 1883 May 6 at 22:13:04.8 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact 1883 May 6 at 23:26:12.7 UTC
Last Central Line 1883 May 6 at 23:27:35.7 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact 1883 May 6 at 23:28:58.4 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact 1883 May 7 at 00:26:34.2 UTC
May 6, 1883 Solar Eclipse Parameters
Parameter Value
Eclipse Magnitude 1.06341
Eclipse Obscuration 1.13085
Gamma −0.42503
Sun Right Ascension 02h54m04.8s
Sun Declination +16°37'58.2"
Sun Semi-Diameter 15'50.7"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 08.7"
Moon Right Ascension 02h54m25.5s
Moon Declination +16°12'38.1"
Moon Semi-Diameter 16'35.5"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax 1°00'53.6"
ΔT -5.6 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.

Eclipse season of April–May 1883
April 22
Ascending node (full moon)
 May 6
Descending node (new moon)
File:SE1883May06T.png
Partial lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 110		 Total solar eclipse
Solar Saros 136

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1883

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 136

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.[5]

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
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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 136

This eclipse is a part of Saros series 136, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 14, 1360. It contains annular eclipses from September 8, 1504 through November 12, 1594; hybrid eclipses from November 22, 1612 through January 17, 1703; and total eclipses from January 27, 1721 through May 13, 2496. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on July 30, 2622. 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 9 at 32 seconds on September 8, 1504, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 34 at 7 minutes, 7.74 seconds on June 20, 1955. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[6]

Series members 26–47 occur between 1801 and 2200:
26 27 28
File:SE1811Mar24T.png
March 24, 1811 		File:SE1829Apr03T.png
April 3, 1829 		File:SE1847Apr15T.png
April 15, 1847
29 30 31
File:SE1865Apr25T.gif
April 25, 1865 		File:SE1883May06T.png
May 6, 1883 		File:SE1901May18T.png
May 18, 1901
32 33 34
File:SE1919May29T.png
May 29, 1919 		File:SE1937Jun08T.png
June 8, 1937 		File:SE1955Jun20T.png
June 20, 1955
35 36 37
File:SE1973Jun30T.png
June 30, 1973 		File:SE1991Jul11T.png
July 11, 1991 		File:SE2009Jul22T.png
July 22, 2009
38 39 40
File:SE2027Aug02T.png
August 2, 2027 		File:SE2045Aug12T.png
August 12, 2045 		File:SE2063Aug24T.png
August 24, 2063
41 42 43
File:SE2081Sep03T.png
September 3, 2081 		File:SE2099Sep14T.png
September 14, 2099 		File:SE2117Sep26T.png
September 26, 2117
44 45 46
File:SE2135Oct07T.png
October 7, 2135 		File:SE2153Oct17T.png
October 17, 2153 		File:SE2171Oct29T.png
October 29, 2171
47
File:SE2189Nov08T.png
November 8, 2189

Metonic series

Template:Solar Metonic series 1830–1917

Tritos series

Template:Solar Tritos series 2003 May 31

Inex series

Template:Solar Inex series 2028 January 26

Notes

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References

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