Solar eclipse of May 26, 1854

43°18′N 140°06′W / 43.3°N 140.1°W / 43.3; -140.1Max. width of band178 km (111 mi)Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse20:42:53ReferencesSaros135 (30 of 71)Catalog # (SE5000)9173

An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 26, 1854. 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.

Visibility

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

Observations

Annularity Daguerrotyped by Stephen Alexander from Ogdensburgh, New York

Partiality by Langenheim Brothers.

Related eclipses

It is a part of Solar Saros 135.

Solar eclipse set repeats every 6 synodic months (about 177.183 days).

Solar eclipse series sets from 1852 to 1855
Ascending node			Descending node
115	June 17, 1852 Partial		120	December 11, 1852 Total
125	June 6, 1853 Annular		130	November 30, 1853 Total
135	May 26, 1854 Annular		140	November 20, 1854 Hybrid
145	May 16, 1855 Partial		150	November 9, 1855 Partial

Saros 135

It is a part of Saros cycle 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with 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. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431.

Series members 33–43 occur between 1901 and 2100:
30	31	32
May 26, 1854	Jun 6, 1872	Jun 17, 1890
33	34	35
Jun 28, 1908	Jul 9, 1926	Jul 20, 1944
36	37	38
Jul 31, 1962	Aug 10, 1980	Aug 22, 1998
39	40	41
Sep 1, 2016	Sep 12, 2034	Sep 22, 2052
42	43
Oct 4, 2070	Oct 14, 2088

Notes

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements
• Total Eclipses of the Sun, By Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894, new and revised edition by David P. Todd, 1900. [1]
• Suggestions relative to the observation of the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, Astronomical Journal, vol. 3, iss. 70, p. 169–172 (1854). Alexander, S.
• On the solar eclipse of 1854, May 26, Bartlett, W. H. C. Astronomical Journal, vol. 4, iss. 77, p. 33–35 (1854).
• Observation of the annular eclipse of May 26, in the suburbs of Ogdensburgh, N. Y. Astronomical Journal, vol. 3, iss. 70, p. 169–172 (1854). Alexander, S.