Solar eclipse of December 22, 1870

35°42′N 1°30′W / 35.7°N 1.5°W / 35.7; -1.5Max. width of band165 km (103 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse12:27:33ReferencesSaros120 (53 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9213

A total solar eclipse occurred on December 22, 1870. 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. Totality was visible from southern Portugal and Spain, across northern Algeria, then crossing Sicily, Greece, Bulgaria, and ending in the south-west of the Russian Empire.

Observations

Related eclipses

It is a part of solar Saros 120.

References

• NASA chart graphics
• Googlemap
• NASA Besselian elements
• Mabel Loomis Todd (1900). Total Eclipses of the Sun. Little, Brown.
• Reports on observations of the total solar eclipse of December 22, 1870 By United States Naval Observatory, Simon Newcomb, Asaph Hall, William Harkness, John Robie Eastman
• Solar Eclipse seen from Jerez in 1870
• The sun was crowned in Jerez