Solar eclipse of March 13, 1812
A partial solar eclipse occurred on March 13, 1812. 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 partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth. It was one of four partial eclipses that took place that year, each two in two months, the last one was on February 12 and covered a part of the Northern Hemisphere. The next  eclipse was on August 7 1812 in a smaller part of where the eclipse happened in the same year. Description. The eclipse was visible in southeastern Australia which included New South Wales which included the modern southeast portion, most of present-day Victoria and present-day Australian Capital Territory, the time the southernmost part of southern Australia (now a state), at the time also called New Holland and the island of Tasmania, there it showed up to 15% obscurity. It was also visible the southwesternmost part of New Zealand's South Island where it showed up to 25% obscurity, the  southeast Indian Ocean and the southwesternmost portion of the Pacific and most of Antarctica except for the northcentral part and the peninsular portion, in that continent, it showed from 5% obscurity at 50th longitude east up to near 50% at the greatest eclipse. The eclipse started in the middle of northern Antarctica at about the 20th longitude east at sunrise east and finished in southwestern New Zealand and within the range of the 180th longitude. The edge of the eclipse was at the area around Parramatta, New South Wales. It showed about up to 15% obscurity in Africa, south of  60, it shown up to over 50% obscurity of the sun. The greatest eclipse was in the Pacific Ocean just near Ross Sea which happened at 6:19 UTC (18:19 local time) at the furthermost area of the Southwestern Hemisphere (sometimes as the Southwestern Tetrasphere).