A partial

solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season i ...

occurred at the Moon's

descending node An orbital node is either of the two points where an orbit intersects a plane of reference to which it is inclined. A non-inclined orbit, which is contained in the reference plane, has no nodes. Planes of reference Common planes of referenc ...

of orbit between Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4, 1848, with a

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of 0.5834. A

occurs when the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon rotation, rotates, with a rotation period (lunar ...

passes between

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...

and the

Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...

, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. This eclipse was the second of four partial solar eclipses in 1848, with the others occurring on March 5, August 28 and September 27.

Description

The eclipse was visible in the

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and included the northeast and northwestern Antarctica especially a part of the west of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. The eclipse started at sunrise offshore from Antarctica where the Indian and the Pacific Ocean divide and ended at sunset in the peninsula and offshore from

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. It showed about up to 15-30% obscuration in northern Antarctica within the

180th meridian The 180th meridian or antimeridian is the meridian (geography), meridian 180° both east and west of the prime meridian in a Geographic coordinate system, geographical coordinate system. The longitude at this line can be given as either east ...

, and from 48% to 58% obscuration in the peninsular portion. 10% obscurity in northern Antarctica and 20% at the Antarctic peninsula. The greatest eclipse was at the Antarctic Peninsula at 71.8 S, 89 W at 22:49 UTC (4:49 PM local time). The subsolar marking was north of the

5th parallel north Following are whole degree circles of latitude between the Equator and the 5th parallel north: 1st parallel north The 1st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 1 degree (angle), degree true north, north of the Earth, Earth's equator, ...

in the Pacific around the

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Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an

eclipse season An eclipse season is a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Eclipse seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of the Orbit of the Moon, Moon's orbital plane (orbital inclination, tilted five degrees to the ecliptic, Earth ...

, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a

fortnight A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (two weeks). The word derives from the Old English term , meaning "" (or "fourteen days", since the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights). Astronomy and tides In astronomy, a ''lunar fortnight'' is hal ...

. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one

synodic month In lunar calendars, a lunar month is the time between two successive Syzygy (astronomy), syzygies of the same type: new moons or full moons. The precise definition varies, especially for the beginning of the month. Variations In Shona people, S ...

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1848

* A partial solar eclipse on March 5. * A total lunar eclipse on March 19. * A partial solar eclipse on April 3. * A partial solar eclipse on August 28. * A total lunar eclipse on September 13. * A partial solar eclipse on September 27.

Metonic

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 16, 1844 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of January 21, 1852

Tzolkinex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of February 21, 1841 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of May 16, 1855

Half-Saros

* Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of March 30, 1839 * Followed by: Lunar eclipse of April 9, 1857

Tritos

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of May 4, 1837 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 4, 1859

Solar Saros 146

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of March 24, 1830 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of April 15, 1866

Inex

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of April 24, 1819 * Followed by: Solar eclipse of March 15, 1877

Triad

* Preceded by: Solar eclipse of June 3, 1761 * Followed by:

Solar eclipse of February 3, 1935 A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Sunday, February 3, 1935, with a magnitude of 0.739. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of ...

Solar eclipses of 1844–1848

The partial solar eclipses on June 16, 1844 and December 9, 1844 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipses on March 5, 1848 and August 28, 1848 occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Saros 146

Metonic series

All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

Tritos series

Inex series

References

External links

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Solar eclipse data
{{Solar eclipses 1848 04 03 Solar eclipse of 04 03 1848 04 03 April 1848