The 1871 total solar eclipse in India
- Date of account
- 12 December 1871
- Location
- India, including eclipse-path observing stations
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The total solar eclipse of 12 December 1871 was observed from parts of India by professional and expeditionary astronomers. Reports concerning the corona, prominences, shadow bands, and rapidly changing sky appearance offer a controlled historical comparison for extraordinary visual descriptions. It may also reveal how observers recorded phenomena that lay outside ordinary daily experience. The eclipse itself is secure, while the usefulness of any individual account depends on locating the original expedition report and identifying whether the observation was optical, atmospheric, or merely descriptive.
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