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Coronium, a predicted chemical element, was detected during the total solar eclipse of 7 August, 1869, when astronomers Charles Augustus Young and…
A Concord 001 with seven observers in followed the path of totality across North Africa during the total solar eclipse. They achieved 74 minutes of…
An expedition organised by the Carnegie Institution of Washington also sent an expedition to Cape Palmas, Liberia, with the primary goal to…
The Lick Observatory of California, Perth Observatory, University of Toronto and Kodiakanal Solar Observatory all sent expeditions to remote Wallal…
The Argentine National Observatory sent an expedition in their second attempt to measure the deflection of stellar rays by the Sun. They were meant to…
Separate expeditions from the Argentine National Observatory and the National Astronomical Observatory in Chile sent separate expeditions to Cristina…
The Sydney Observatory sent a team to Goondiwindi, in Queensland, east Australia, in an expedition organised and financed by Sir Wilfrid Russell…
The Observatory in Adelaide, South Australia sent a party to the Cordillo Downs, to make observations at the total solar eclipse in Australia in 1922.…
An expedition from the Greenwich Observatory and a joint Dutch-German expedition traveled to Christmas island to make observations of the total solar…
After the Jesuit Fathers of the efforts by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee to send an expedition party to Minsk were refused entry into the…
An expedition team sent by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee traveled to the Russian Empire, but their agenda for the eclipse was clouded out.…
The Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee in England sent two parties across the world to measure the deflection of stellar rays by the Sun's…
British astronomer and chemist Warren de la Rue designed the first photoheliograph - an instrument that consisted of features from a telescope and…
Observers from the Greenwich Observatory in England, the Bureau des Longitudes in France and Brazilian National Observatory congregated at a site in…
The Chinese Zijin Mountain Observatory sent an expedition to Lintao to observe this eclipse. The expedition team traveled 3200 kilometres and 43 days…
The renowned Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev ascended in a hot balloon in a field near Klin to observe this eclipse. Despite that Mendeleev had never…
The Royal Astronomical Society intended to organise and two eclipse expeditions, spread across from French Guyana to the then Portuguese colony of…
French astrophysicist Jules Janssen used spectroscopy to analyse the light spectra data from the solar prominences during totality. He observed the…
After almost 27 years after it was first detected in the chromosphere during the total solar eclipse of 18 August 1868 in India, Sir William Ramsay, a…
A team from the Lick Observatory in California, alongside their original plan for the eclipse, were prepared to perform the experiment to measure the…
Julius Berkowski, a renowned photographer, is credited for capturing the first successful photographic image of the solar corona (with the correct…
The Principe party of the expedition organised by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee in England to measure the deflection of stellar rays by the…
Maria Mitchell, professor at Vassar College, along with five of her students observed the total solar eclipse from Denver, Colorado. Her expedition…
With Siam surrounded by British territories in the West and French territories in the East, King Rama IV strategically invited Sir Harry Ord, a…