Solar eclipse of May 1, 1185

Solar eclipse of May 1, 1185
Solar eclipse of May 1, 1185
Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.5264
Magnitude	1.0736
Maximum eclipse
Duration	310 s (5m 10s)
Coordinates	46°00′00″N 37°12′00″W / 46.000°N 37.200°W / 46.000; -37.200
Max. width of band	280 km (170 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:30:57
References
Saros	115 (30 of 72)

The solar eclipse of May 1, 1185 was a total solar eclipse visible in Central America, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Kazakhstan. The eclipse is number 30 in the Solar Saros 115 series. The eclipse shadow on the Earth's surface was at its greatest at 13:18:02 Universal Time. The sun was in Taurus at this time.^[1] The eclipse was documented in Tale of Igor's Campaign and the Laurentian Codex, and possibly the Chronicle of Melrose and the Brut y Tywysogion. It may have influenced Igor Svyatoslavich's campaign against the Polovtsians.