Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896
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Type of eclipse
Nature	Total
Gamma	0.6964
Magnitude	1.0392
Maximum eclipse
Duration	163 s (2 min 43 s)
Coordinates	54°24′N 132°12′E / 54.4°N 132.2°E / 54.4; 132.2
Max. width of band	182 km (113 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	5:09:00
References
Saros	124 (48 of 73)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9272

A total solar eclipse occurred on August 9, 1896. 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. It was visible across Europe, Asia, and Japan.

It is a part of solar Saros 124.

This event was the subject of the first organized eclipse expedition by the British Astronomical Association. A group of 165 amateur and professional astronomers sailed from Tilbury, England on July 25, heading toward Vadsø, Norway.^[1] This expedition failed to produce any usable results as they were frustrated by the weather conditions at the time of the eclipse.^[2] However, a smaller expedition to Novaya Zemlya on Sir George Baden-Powell's yacht Otario met with success.^[1]

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• NASA graphics
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• Corona and Coronet: Being a narrative of the Amherst Eclipse Expedition to Japan, in Mr. James's Schooner-Yacht Coronet, to Observe the Sun's Total Obscuration, 9th August, 1896, by Mabel Loomis Todd, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publishers, 1898
• Mabel Loomis Todd (1900). Total Eclipses of the Sun. Little, Brown.
• Solar eclipse of August 9, 1896 in Russia Archived August 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine