Solar eclipse of April 17, 1912

Solar eclipse of April 17, 1912
classification
Type	Hybrid
area	Eastern America , Europe , West and North Africa , Middle East , Western Asia Hybrid: Venezuela , Guyana , Brazil , Suriname , Portugal , Spain , France , Belgium , Netherlands , Germany , Lithuania , Estonia , Russia
Saros cycle	137 (30 of 70)
Gamma value	0.5279
Greatest eclipse
Duration	0 minutes 2 seconds
place	Atlantic
location	38 ° 22 ′  N , 11 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 22 ′  N , 11 ° 15 ′  W
time	April 17, 1912 11:34:08   UT
size	1,0003

The central zone of the hybrid solar eclipse of April 17, 1912 extended over northern South America , Europe and Asia , as well as the Atlantic . The short area of ​​totality touched Portugal and Spain, the rest of the course the darkness was ring-shaped.

course

The eclipse began ring-shaped at sunrise in Venezuela and barely covered Brazil . Later on, British Guiana (now Guyana ) was crossed and Suriname (then Dutch) was touched. The zone crossed the Atlantic and barely touched the island of Porto Santo ( Madeira (archipelago) ). The duration of the annular shape there was less than half a second. The moon's shadow reached mainland Europe south of the Portuguese capital Porto . With a duration of 1.6s, the totality was very short. The shadow crossed northwestern Spain , near Ponferrada only 1.3s totality was reached , near Gijón only 0.9s totality. In the Bay of Biscay , the totality and the further course ended was back annular. The central zone crossed France, to the northwest of Paris the annular shape lasted 2.6s, and reached Belgium. In Namur , the ring shape lasted 4.2s. Then the Dutch province Limburg was crossed and Germany reached at lunchtime. With Krefeld , Duisburg , Oberhausen , Bottrop and Recklinghausen , important West German cities were on the path of darkness. The duration of the ring shape there was around 5.5 seconds. In the further course, northern Germany was crossed and the path reached the Baltic Sea on the island of Rügen . The zone left the Baltic Sea in what is now Lithuania and crossed what is now Estonia (both then the Russian Empire ) and Siberia . The eclipse ended at sunset near Krasnoyarsk .

Observations

The solar eclipse was a special event in the big cities. In the best weather, the eclipse could be followed throughout large parts of Central Europe.

Observing the solar eclipse in Paris - Eugène Atget

Image of the eclipsed sun, taken from a balloon by Camille Flammarion

The Recklinghäuser Zeitung reported in detail.

The solar eclipse was scientifically accompanied by the Hamburg observatory, which set up several measuring stations in the Lüneburg Heath to a. to determine the exact position of the central line.

A documentary film about the solar eclipse was also shot and shown.

Others

The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912 is closely related .

In the Netherlands, the touch of the heartland and the distant part of the Dutch Suriname is perceived as a special feature.

It is said that over 3,000 observers of the solar eclipse sustained retinal damage, but a contemporary source for this claim has not been found.

The next central solar eclipse in northern Germany will be the annular solar eclipse on July 23, 2093 .

Web links

• Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 1912 Apr 17 . NASA
• Eclipse path of the solar eclipse of April 17, 1912 at NASA

• Stephan Heinsius: Solar eclipse 1912 moon shadow over Mecklenburg
• Wolfgang Strickling: The solar eclipse in Recklinghausen on April 17th, 1912
• Jochen Schramm: Stars over Hamburg , Annular eclipse in the Lüneburg Heath
• Xavier M. Jubier: Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 1912 April 17 over Europe
• Images of the solar eclipse over Arbon on April 17, 1912

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review of the solar eclipse in 1912 - newspaper clippings from the Recklinghäuser Zeitung . Website of the Dattelner Morgenpost ; accessed on March 27, 2015.
2. ↑ The observation of the annular solar eclipse of 1912 April 17 by the Hamburg observatory . In: Astronomische Nachrichten , bibcode : 1912AN .... 191..429S (full text available / PDF)
3. ↑ The Solar Eclipse (1912) . The German Early Cinema Database of the University of Cologne; accessed on March 27, 2015.
4. ^ De “Titanic eclipse” of April 17, 1912 . Hans van der Meer's Eclips Pagina; accessed on March 27, 2015.
5. ↑ The professional association of ophthalmologists urgently warns against looking into the sun unprotected . ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Professional Association of Ophthalmologists in Germany V .; accessed on March 27, 2015.