Solar eclipse of July 19, 418
| Solar eclipse of July 19, 418 | |
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| classification | |
| Type | Total |
| area |
Southern Europe , South Asia Total: Portugal , Spain , Italy , Albania , Greece , Turkey Iraq , Iran , India |
| Saros cycle | 91 (33 of 75) |
| Gamma value | 0.3481 |
| Greatest eclipse | |
| Duration | 3 minutes 52 seconds |
| place | Albania |
| location | 41 ° 30 ′ N , 20 ° 24 ′ E |
| size | 1.0459 |
The solar eclipse of July 19, 418 was a total solar eclipse that was visible in southern Europe and southern Asia.
description
The umbra area began in the Atlantic, then passed through the southern European states of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, then crossed Iraq, Iran and southern India and finally ended in the Indian Ocean , in the Bay of Bengal . The darkness belongs to the Saros cycle 91.
Traditional observations
Hydatius von Aquae Flaviae , who lived near Chaves in Portugal, reports on this solar eclipse and another one on December 23, 447 . Since two solar eclipses in particular with this time interval did not occur a second time at this location, this solar eclipse allows an unequivocal, absolute dating.
The solar eclipse was probably also mentioned in other sources, in an exchange of letters between Hesychius and Augustine of Hippo , in the church history of Philostorgios , and in the chronicles of Marcellinus Comes . Philostorgios puts the celestial phenomenon in a temporal connection with the coming of age of the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Total Solar Eclipse of 418 July 19 NASA
- ↑ a b Veronica Wieser: The Chronicle of Hydatius , in Matthew Gabriele, James T. Palmer (Eds.): Apocalypse and Reform from late antiquity to the middle ages , Routledge 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-68402-7
- ↑ Dieter B. Herrmann : The astronomical foundations of chronology , page 38
- ^ Bruno Bleckmann , Markus Stein : Philostorgios Kirchengeschichte , Ferdinand Schöningh-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78199-4 , commentary on the 12th book, page 597