07/29/2024
Day becomes night at Fort Worth
July 29th, 1878
On this day in 1878, a team of astronomers converged on Fort Worth to observe a total solar eclipse. Leonard Waldo of Harvard College Observatory directed the scientific party. Local and out-of-state academic institutions sent representatives, and their observations produced both sketches and photographs of the event. These studies led to important findings regarding the height of the sun's chromosphere and also produced dramatic images of the solar corona.
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Total Solar Eclipse in Fort Worth (1878)
Photograph of seven astronomers -- Leonard Waldo, R.W. Wilson, J.K. Rees, W.H. Pulsifer, F.E. Seagrave, Alfred Freeman, and A.M. Britton -- with various telescopes set up out-of-doors near a large wooden barn or other structure. According to accompanying information they are on the S.W. Lomax farm, waiting to observe the total solar eclipse that happened on July 29, 1878.
Total Solar Eclipse in Fort Worth (1878), photograph, July 29, 1878; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth28039/: accessed July 29, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room.
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