Solar eclipse of August 19, 1887
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureTotal
Gamma0.6312
Magnitude1.0518
Maximum eclipse
Duration230 sec (3 m 50 s)
Coordinates50°36′N 111°54′E / 50.6°N 111.9°E / 50.6; 111.9
Max. width of band221 km (137 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse5:32:05
References
Saros143 (16 of 72)
Catalog # (SE5000)9251

A total solar eclipse occurred on 19 August 1887. 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 across Europe, Asia, and Japan.

Observations

The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev ascended in a balloon near Moscow to observe this eclipse. The weather in Tver Governorate was cloudy and it was rain at morning, so Mendeleev forced to fly alone. He made some notes at 6:55, 20 minutes after the start, and made some observations of the solar corona. For this flight, the scientist was awarded the medal of the Academy of Aerostatic Meteorology.[1]


Partiality at sunrise from Berlin, Germany
Ilya Repin, “The Solar Eclipse of 1887” (“Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev on the aerostat”), 1887.

Russian writer Anton Chekhov published the short story "From the Diary of a Hot-Tempered Man" six weeks before the eclipse passed through Russia. The story includes a major section about the frustrations of a man who is trying to make a great variety of observations during the short interval of totality. In the story the eclipse date is given as 7 August 1887, as per the Julian Calendar then in use in Russia.

Solar 143

It is a part of Saros cycle 143, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on March 7, 1617 and total event from June 24, 1797 through October 24, 1995. It has hybrid eclipses from November 3, 2013 through December 6, 2067, and annular eclipses from December 16, 2085 through September 16, 2536. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on April 23, 2873. The longest duration of totality was 3 minutes, 50 seconds on August 19, 1887. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s ascending node.

Series members 17–28 occur between 1741 and 2100
8 9 10

May 23, 1743
June 3, 1761
June 14, 1779
11 12 13

June 24, 1797
July 6, 1815
July 17, 1833
14 15 16

July 28, 1851
August 7, 1869
August 19, 1887
17 18 19

August 30, 1905
September 10, 1923
September 21, 1941
20 21 22

October 2, 1959
October 12, 1977
October 24, 1995
23 24 25

November 3, 2013
November 14, 2031
November 25, 2049
26 27 28

December 6, 2067
December 16, 2085

Notes

  1. ↑ Кирилл Яблочкин. (19 October 2014). "Менделеев на воздушном шаре: история рискованного полёта великого химика" [Mendeleev in a balloon: the story of a risky flight of the great chemist] (in Russian). Retrieved 15 February 2022.

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