Solar eclipse of January 22, 1879

Solar eclipse of January 22, 1879
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.1824
Magnitude	0.97
Maximum eclipse
Duration	183 s (3 min 3 s)
Coordinates	29°48′S 8°30′E / 29.8°S 8.5°E / -29.8; 8.5
Max. width of band	110 km (68 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	11:53:08
References
Saros	129 (44 of 80)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9231

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Wednesday January 22, 1879, with a magnitude of 0.9700. 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. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The Moon's apparent diameter will be near the average diameter because it occurred 8.1 days after perigee (on January 14, 1879, at 16:55 UTC) and 6.7 days before apogee (on January 29, 1879, at 5:10 UTC).^[1]

The path of annularity was visible from parts of modern-day Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brazil, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, the southernmost Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Malawi, and Tanzania. A partial solar eclipse was also visible for parts of South America, Antarctica, Africa, and the Middle East.