Solar Eclipse, Ohio -- April 8, 2024 -- Amen's Or Omens?
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun,
thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth,
totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six
months, during the elipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit.. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. Unlike a lunar eclipse, which may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth, a solar eclipse can only be viewed from a relatively
small area of the world. As such, although total solar eclipses occur
somewhere on Earth every 18 months on average, they recur at any given
place only once every 360 to 410 years.
(What is an eclipse?" European Space Agency. Archived from the original on 2018-08-04.)
On April 8, 2024, the second total solar eclipse in the U.S. in less than seven years will travel up through the country from Texas to Maine. The 2024 eclipse, known as the "Great North American Eclipse," promises to be even more spectacular than the historic 2017 eclipse, crossing over or coming close to more major cities and with a maximum duration of totality that's almost two minutes longer!
(National Eclipse. "Total Solar Eclipse in America. April 8, 2024." https://nationaleclipse.com/.)
According to National Eclipse, Ohio residents can first see the moon overtake the sun at 1:53 p.m. before it fully reappears at 4:30 p.m.
The eclipse totality will last from 3:08 to 3:19 p.m. as it cuts a swath from southwest to northeast Ohio.
Here's when some Ohio cities along its path can expect the total eclipse to being, and how long it will last:
- Hamilton -- Begins at 3:09:09 p.m., will last 1 minute, 42 seconds.
- Dayton -- 3:09:29 p.m., will last 2 minutes, 43 seconds.
- Springfield -- 3:10:15 p.m., will last 2 minutes, 34 seconds.
- Marion -- 3:11:14 p.m., duration 3 minutes, 34 seconds.
- Delaware -- 3:11:36 p.m., will last 2 minutes, 35 seconds.
- Fremont -- 3:11:46 p.m., duration 2 minutes, 38 seconds.
- Dublin -- 3:11:59 p.m., will last 1 minute, 23 seconds.
- Port Clinton -- 3:12:12 p.m., duration 3 minutes, 30 seconds.
- Toledo -- 3:12:17 p.m., duration 1 minute, 53 seconds.
- Mansfield -- 3:12:23 p.m., will last 3 minutes, 16 seconds.
- Ashland -- 3:12:43 p.m., duration 3 minutes, 19 seconds.
- Wooster -- 3:13:39 p.m., duration 2 minutes, 25 seconds.
- Akron -- 3:14:14 p.m., will last 2 minutes, 46 seconds.
- Cuyahoga Falls -- 3:14:15 p.m., will last 2 minutes, 56 seconds.
- Cleveland -- 3:13:46 p.m., will last 3 minutes, 49 seconds.
- Kent -- 3:14:31 p.m., will last 2 minutes, 47 seconds
Along the way, periods of darkness could last a mere few seconds or, in some cities, could surpass four minutes.
| | Eclipses have been interpreted as omens, or portents. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Thales of Miletus predicted an eclipse the occurred during a battle betwenn the Medes and the Lydians.Both sides put down their weapons and declared peace as a result of the eclipse. The exact eclipse involved remains uncertain, although the issue has been studied by hundreds of ancient and modern authorities. One likely candidate took place on May 28, 585 BC, probably near the Halvs river in Asia Minor. An eclipse recorded by Herodotus before Xerxes departed for his expedition against Greece which is traditionally dated to 480 BC, was matched by John Russell Hind to an annular eclipse of the Sun at Sardis on February 17, 478 BC. Alternatively, a partial eclipse was visible from Persia on October 2, 480 BC. Herodotus also reports a solar eclipse at Sparta during the Second Persian invasion of Greece. The date of the eclipse (August 1, 477 BC) does not match exactly the conventional dates for the invasion accepted by historians. Chinese records of eclipses begin at around 720 BC.The 4th century BC astronomer Shi Shen described the prediction of eclipses by using the relative positions of the Moon and Sun. Attempts have been made to establish the exact date of Good Friday by assuming that the darkness described at Jesus's crucifixion was a solar eclipse. This research has not yielded conclusive results, and Good Friday is recorded as being at Passover, which is held at the time of a full moon. Further, the darkness lasted from the sixth hour to the ninth, or three hours, which is much, much longer than the eight-minute upper limit for any solar eclipse's totality. Contemporary chronicles wrote about an eclipse at the beginning of May 644 that coincided with the beginning of the plague of 664 in the British isles. In the Western hemisphere, there are few reliable records of eclipses before AD 800, until the advent of Arab and monastic observations in the early medieval period. The Cairo astronomer Ibn Yunus wrote that the calculation of eclipses was one of the many things that connect astronomy with the Islamic law because it allowed knowing when a special prayer can be made. The first recorded observation of the corona was made in Constantinople in AD 968.
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