Solar eclipse of December 22, 1889

Solar eclipse of December 22, 1889
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.1888
Magnitude	1.0449
Maximum eclipse
Duration	258 sec (4 m 18 s)
Coordinates	12°42′S 12°48′W / 12.7°S 12.8°W
Max. width of band	152 km (94 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	12:54:15
References
Saros	130 (45 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9257

A total solar eclipse occurred on December 22, 1889. 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. It was visible from Cuba, to the coast of Brazil, and across southern Africa.

Observations

Related eclipses

Saros 130

It is a part of Saros cycle 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 20, 1096. It contains total eclipses from April 5, 1475 through July 18, 2232. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on October 25, 2394. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 41 seconds on July 11, 1619.^[1]

Series members 43–56 between 1853 and 2100
43	44	45
November 30, 1853	December 12, 1871	December 22, 1889
46	47	48
January 3, 1908	January 14, 1926	January 25, 1944
49	50	51
February 5, 1962	February 16, 1980	February 26, 1998
52	53	54
March 9, 2016	March 20, 2034	March 30, 2052
55	56
April 11, 2070	April 21, 2088

References

1. "Saros Series catalog of solar eclipses". NASA.

• NASA graphic
  • Googlemap
  • NASA Besselian elements
• Sketchs of Solar Corona December 22, 1889
• Eclipse of December 21, 1889 (Cayenne). Contact print from the original glass negative. Lick Observatory Plate Archive, Mt. Hamilton.
• On Board the Pensacola--The Eclipse Expedition to the West Coast of Africa by Albert Bergman (A Man Before the Mast), New York, 1890
• Total Eclipses of the Sun, By Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894, new and revised edition by David P. Todd, 1900.
• Turner, H.H. (14 March 1890). "Report of the Eclipse Committee". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Royal Astronomical Society. 50: 265 et seq. Bibcode:1890MNRAS..50..265T. doi:10.1093/mnras/50.5.265.