Solar eclipse of May 22, 1724

18th-century total solar eclipse
50°48′N 92°54′W / 50.8°N 92.9°W / 50.8; -92.9Max. width of band247 km (153 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse17:10:09ReferencesSaros133 (29 of 72)Catalog # (SE5000)8847

A total solar eclipse occurred on May 22, 1724. 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.

Observations

This solar eclipse crossed Ireland and Great Britain near sunset, north-west to south-east track, from Galway to southern Wales and Devon in the west, eastwards to Hampshire and Sussex, but passing to the south of London.[1][2][3][4][5] It was to be 203 years before a total solar eclipse was next witnessed from the British mainland, which had previously seen a total eclipse just nine years before, and Ireland will not see a total solar eclipse until 2090.

It crossed what would later become the city Los Angeles, CA in the morning, which constituted the village of Yaanga at the time. The next total eclipse over Los Angeles will not occur until April 1, 3290.[6]

Related eclipses

It is a part of solar Saros 133.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nature: The International Journal of Science". Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. July 6, 1879. p. 97 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Littmann, Mark; Espenak, Fred; Willcox, Ken (July 17, 2008). Totality: Eclipses of the Sun. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-157994-3 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Pitou, Spire (June 1, 1961). "Observations on Dancourt's L'Eclipse". Modern Language Quarterly. 22 (2): 149–152. doi:10.1215/00267929-22-2-149 – via Silverchair.
  4. ^ Lynn, W. T. (June 1892). "The total solar eclipse of 1724". Correspondence. The Observatory. 15: 263–264. Bibcode:1892Obs....15..263L. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  5. ^ Littmann, Mark; Espenak, Fred (July 6, 2017). Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879569-8 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "The Shadowy Details of Today's Solar Eclipse". Space.com. 8 April 2005.

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