Solar eclipse of September 7, 1820

Solar eclipse of September 7, 1820
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	0.8251
Magnitude	0.9329
Maximum eclipse
Duration	349 s (5 min 49 s)
Coordinates	51°36′N 8°42′E / 51.6°N 8.7°E / 51.6; 8.7
Max. width of band	432 km (268 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	13:59:58
References
Saros	122 (47 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9091

An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Thursday, September 7, 1820, with a magnitude of 0.9329. 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. Occurring only about 5 hours before apogee (on September 7, 1820, at 18:50 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.^[1]

The path of annularity was visible from parts of modern-day northern Canada, Greenland, western Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, northeastern Libya, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. A partial solar eclipse was also visible for parts of northern North America, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.