Solar eclipse of September 5, 1793

An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 5, 1793. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially 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 kilometers wide.

Description

The path of annularity passed through modern Greenland, Iceland (including Reykjavik), southern Norway, southern Sweden, Denmark (including Copenhagen), Poland (including Warsaw), Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Georgia, eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran (including Tehran), Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India.

The solar eclipse occurred during the Reign of Terror. The eclipse was partial from Paris, France.

The eclipse was part of Solar Saros 141.

See also

• List of solar eclipses in the 18th century

References

1. List of solar eclipses visible from Russia
2. Solar Saros 136
3. List of solar eclipses in the 18th century
4. Solar eclipse of November 15, 2077
5. Planetary transits and occultations
6. Solar cycle
7. Solar Saros 132
8. Epoch
9. Solar Saros 141
10. 1860 in science
11. 1704
12. Charles Messier
13. Gregorian calendar
14. Covington, Ohio
15. Giovanni Domenico Cassini
16. Crucifixion of Jesus
17. History of longitude
18. 1851
19. Meanings of minor-planet names: 1–1000
20. 1836