Solar eclipse of August 21, 1914

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Solar eclipse of August 21, 1914
Animation of the total solar eclipse of August 21, 1914
Animation of the total solar eclipse of August 21, 1914
classification
Type Total
area North Africa , Europe , Western Asia , Northeastern North America
Total: Canada , Greenland , Norway , Sweden , Russia , Turkey , Iraq , Iran , Pakistan , India
Saros cycle 124 (49 of 73)
Gamma value 0.7654
Greatest eclipse
Duration 2 minutes 15 seconds
place Russian Empire , today's Belarus
location 54 ° 28 ′  N , 27 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 28 ′  N , 27 ° 4 ′  E
time August 21, 1914 12:34:09   UT
size 1.0328

The totality zone of the total solar eclipse of August 21, 1914 extended over North America , Europe and Asia .

course

At around 11:25 a.m. (all times in Universal Time , UT) the eclipse started over the far north of Canada . Then the sun darkened in Greenland and around 12:15 pm the umbra arrived in Norway . Then he moved over Scandinavia and then reached the Russian Empire , where the eclipse maximum was reached on Lake Naratsch . By 1:00 p.m. the darkness reached the Crimea . It then moved across the Black Sea to the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey ) and then to Persia (now Iran ), where it ended around 1:43 p.m. off the coast of British India (now India ).

Others

The eclipse occurred a few days after the beginning of the First World War . In Gumbinnen (today Gussew ), where the day before Russians and Germans had fought in the battle of Gumbinnen , the sun was about 96% darkened. An influence on the fighting, as was the case for the solar eclipse in 585 BC. Chr. Has been handed down, but did not have it.

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