Total Eclipse of the Sun

Totality over Creston, Wyoming Territory, July 29, 1878.

Chart: The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings
Plate: Plate III
Astronomer: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Date: 1881
Held by: New York Public Library · via Wikimedia Commons

Plate IIIas observed July 29, 1878, Creston, Wyoming Territory

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Plate III of The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1881: the total eclipse of the Sun on July 29, 1878, as Étienne Léopold Trouvelot saw it at Creston, in Wyoming Territory. The path of totality ran from eastern Russia and Alaska through western Canada, down the American West from Washington and Montana through Wyoming and Colorado to Texas and Louisiana, and on to Cuba and Hispaniola. In a total eclipse the Moon's disc covers the Sun's and blocks all direct sunlight, and day turns to darkness. Only then do the Sun's prominences show to the naked eye. Trouvelot stood on the line of totality and drew what it showed him.

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