A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Saturday, June 26 and Sunday, June 27, 1824, with a magnitude of 1.0578. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring about 1.9 days before perigee (on June 28, 1824, at 20:40 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was larger.[1]
The path of totality was visible from parts of modern-day China, South Korea, North Korea, and Japan. A partial solar eclipse was also visible for parts of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, and North America.
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.[2]
| First Penumbral External Contact | 1824 June 26 at 21:10:52.2 UTC | |
| First Umbral External Contact | 1824 June 26 at 22:09:02.7 UTC | |
| First Central Line | 1824 June 26 at 22:10:15.5 UTC | |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 1824 June 26 at 22:11:28.4 UTC | |
| First Penumbral Internal Contact | 1824 June 26 at 23:21:31.6 UTC | |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 1824 June 26 at 23:40:46.7 UTC | |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 1824 June 26 at 23:42:26.0 UTC | |
| Greatest Duration | 1824 June 26 at 23:45:35.5 UTC | |
| Greatest Eclipse | 1824 June 26 at 23:46:32.7 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral Internal Contact | 1824 June 27 at 00:11:43.0 UTC | |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 1824 June 27 at 01:21:38.6 UTC | |
| Last Central Line | 1824 June 27 at 01:22:53.3 UTC | |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 1824 June 27 at 01:24:08.0 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 1824 June 27 at 02:22:11.6 UTC |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.05776 | |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.11885 | |
| Gamma | 0.39597 | |
| Sun Right Ascension | 06h22m39.4s | |
| Sun Declination | +23°21'36.2" | |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 15'43.8" | |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.6" | |
| Moon Right Ascension | 06h22m53.7s | |
| Moon Declination | +23°45'07.9" | |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'23.1" | |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 1°00'08.1" | |
| ΔT | 10.0 s |
See also: Eclipse cycle. This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, 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.
The partial solar eclipses on February 11, 1823 and August 6, 1823 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the partial solar eclipse on October 31, 1826 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set.
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1823 to 1826 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
| Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
| 109 | January 12, 1823 Partial | −1.5413 | 114 | July 8, 1823 Partial | 1.1182 | |
| 119 | January 1, 1824 Annular | −0.8821 | 124 | June 26, 1824 Total | 0.3960 | |
| 129 | December 20, 1824 Annular | −0.1685 | 134 | June 16, 1825 Hybrid | −0.3812 | |
| 139 | December 9, 1825 Hybrid | 0.5296 | 144 | June 5, 1826 Partial | −1.1887 | |
| 149 | November 29, 1826 Partial | 1.1764 | ||||
All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
