Stargazing in Iran

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Odysseus wrote:

Paul Schlyter wrote:

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Our last total solar eclipse here was on 3 May 1715 (Gregorian date) - it
gave us a nice 4 minute totality (which is really long for our high
latitude) and also caused a great scandal: all the almanacs published in
Stockholm for 1715 failed to predict the totality in Stockholm, which thus
came quite unexpected! Much because of that the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences was given the exclusive right to publish almanacs here from 1747
and during the next 225 years - not until 1973 were others again allowed
to publish almanacs in Sweden.

What was the nature of the error that caused the missed prediction?
Miscalculation or a methodological problem?

It's a bit hard to find out now of course, 290 years after it happened...
But the most likely reason is incompetence - these almanacs weren't
published by astronomers.

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Paul Schlyter wrote:

There you'll be able to view the ground paths of all total and annular
solar eclipses from 2000 BC (aka -1999) to 3000 AD (aka +3000). Thanks
to that site I know that the next total solar eclipse in my own home
town, Stockholm, occurs on 24 March 2927 !!!!


Drat! Monday, 24 March 2927, happens to be my bowling night.

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Mark Gingrich San Leandro, California

"Mark Gingrich" wrote

Thanks
to that site I know that the next total solar eclipse in my own home
town, Stockholm, occurs on 24 March 2927 !!!!

Drat! Monday, 24 March 2927, happens to be my bowling night.

I wonder who your team sponsor will be!?

In article ,
Mark Gingrich wrote:

Paul Schlyter wrote:

There you'll be able to view the ground paths of all total and annular
solar eclipses from 2000 BC (aka -1999) to 3000 AD (aka +3000). Thanks
to that site I know that the next total solar eclipse in my own home
town, Stockholm, occurs on 24 March 2927 !!!!

Drat! Monday, 24 March 2927, happens to be my bowling night.

Fortunately for you, the solar eclipse occurs in daytime. So you can watch
the eclipse during the day, and then go bowling the following night.

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Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN
e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se
WWW: http://stjarnhimlen.se/

Paul Schlyter wrote:
... I know that the next total solar eclipse in my own home
town, Stockholm, occurs on 24 March 2927 !!!!

I got one on 17 October 2153, nyah, nyah! Only 110 km from maximum
eclipse, too! It will be the 45th of Saros 136. I estimate that my
home town will be at most 35 km from the center line, which translates
to 4 minutes or just a shade longer.

Our last total solar eclipse here was on 3 May 1715 (Gregorian date) - it
gave us a nice 4 minute totality (which is really long for our high
latitude) [snip]

My last one was probably 12 March 1271, although i can't tell for sure
from the map resolution. That one was the 41st of Saros 108. The date
is certainly by the Julian calendar, as the Saros cycles across 1582 CE
show the expected dating anomalies.

I am unaware of any record of that eclipse. The Tainos, the most
likely inhabitants of St. Thomas that year, had no written language,
and any oral history did not survive the invasion by the Caribs, and
later, the Spanish. The eclipse did track across what is now Costa
Rica, but i know nothing about the people who lived there.


Clear skies!

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