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His computational paradigm was so accurate that 18th-century scientist Guillaume Le Gentil, during a visit to Pondicherry, India, found the Indian computations of the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 to be short by 41 seconds, whereas his charts (by Tobias Mayer, 1752) were long by 68 seconds.
By the time of India's independence colonial science had assumed importance within the westernized intelligentsia and establishment. French astronomer, Pierre Janssen observed the Solar eclipse of 18 August 1868 and discovered helium, from Guntur in Madras State, British India. [134]
In mid-1918, researchers from the Brazilian National Observatory, determined that the city of Sobral, Ceará, was the best geographical position to observe the Solar Eclipse. Its director, Henrique Charles Morize [ pt ] , sent a report to worldwide scientific institutions on the subject, including the Royal Astronomical Society, London.
Pathani Samanta (1835–1904 ) the last in chain of naked eye astronomers of India belonging to Siddhantic Era. Was born in Kahndapada, a feudatory state of Odisha. He studied various Siddhantas and found them to be erroneous as the planets were either not found at the right places or at right time.
A group of people safely watching a solar eclipse in New York City in 1865. - Corbis/Getty Images.
A rare total solar eclipse will cut a 115-mile-wide path April 8 across North America, but less than a week before it happens, new research suggests fewer Hoosiers could experience the totality ...
The first evidence of helium was observed on August 18, 1868, as a bright yellow spectral line with a wavelength of 587.49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun. The line was detected by French astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.
The next time New York will be on the path of totality for a total solar eclipse is 55 years from now on May 1, 2079. The eclipse will start at sunrise and reach totality at 6:07 a.m. for 59 ...