The Solar Eclipse over Jamestown by CSi

Jamestown  CSi –  Monday’s solar eclipse was spectacular.  Photographer Thomas Ravely was out and took these pictures of the eclipse.

The next solar eclipse visible from Jamestown will be a partial solar eclipse on June 10, 2021, in which merely 6.5% of the Sun’s surface will be hidden by the Moon.

The next total solar eclipse to be visible in Jamestown will be September 14, 2099.

On Monday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi 2 amateur astronomer, Dr. Tim Bratton, oulined the timeline for Jamestown solar eclipse viewers.

11:35:45 p.m., CDT: Both the Sun and the Moon will be roughly 46 degrees over our city’s SE horizon.  At that instant the Moon, just to the Sun’s upper right, will take a small “bite” out of the solar disk as it begins to move across the star.

12:31 p.m.: New Moon occurs technically as both solar system bodies share the same ecliptic longitude.

12:54:08 p.m.: Maximum eclipse occurs as the Moon moves almost directly south of the Sun’s center, with both objects 54 degrees above the SSE horizon.  The eclipse’s magnitude from our location is 85.2%, which means that the Moon will cover that percentage of the Sun’s diameter.  However, since both bodies are spheres, the obscuration (percentage of the apparent surface area of the star covered by the Moon) will be smaller at 82%.  Looking at the Sun through approved solar eclipse glasses, you would perceive a brilliant solar crescent, with its cusps facing down.  At this moment the Moon will be 228,132.7 miles away, while the Sun will lie 94,013,461 miles from Earth.  Because the Moon is pretty close to us, its apparent diameter is 32.5 minutes of arc, while the Sun appears 31.5 arc-minutes wide.  This is why the lucky people to the south of us will see a total solar eclipse; the Moon’s disk will cover the star completely.

2:17:52 p.m.: The eclipse ends as the Moon’s rim departs from the lower left of the Sun.