Report of a Committee of the American Philosophical Society on Astronomical Observations : containing observations made in different parts of the United States, on the solar eclipse of February 12th, 1831 : read October 7, 1831 (1834)
American Philosophical Society. Committee on Astronomical Observations · [Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified] · leaf 12
to about one-third of the moon’s diameter, when it gradu¬ ally faded into indistinctness, and the whole surface of the moon appeared equally dark. The same took place again in the inverse order, with varied configurations, towards the end of the eclipse. The telescope with which I observed being… … Observations on the Eclipse of the Sun, February 12, 1831, by Professor R. M. Patterson , M.D. , at the University of Virginia, in lat. 38° 2' 3" N., and long. 5 h. 14 m. 4.8 sec. W. of Greenwich. h. m. sec. Beginning of Eclipse, 11 0 26 > Mean go,ar t; End, 2 7 20 5 Meteorological Observations…
Solar eclipses -- 1831
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