Solar eclipse of April 5, 1837
A partial solar eclipse occurred on April 5, 1837, during fall. 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 the first of three partial eclipses that took place that year, each two in two months, the next on was on May 4 covered a part of the Northern Hemisphere . It was the last of solar saros 107. The eclipse was visible in the a part of northeast Antarctica a part of the southeasternmost portion of the Indian Ocean. All of the eclipse started at sunset, first nearly 60% of the way between the South Pole and the Pacific and ended hundreds of miles (or kilometers) offshore from Tasmania. The edge of the eclipse lined within the ocean boundaries of the Indian and the Pacific. It showed about up to nearly 10% obscurity in Antarctica. The greatest eclipse was nearly quarterway between Antarctica and the southernmost of the island of  Tasmania at 61.3 S, 145.6 E at 7:36 UTC (4:36 PM local time). The subsolar marking was in the Indian Ocean north of the Equator.