Which solar eclipse could be seen from cleveland ohio in the 1970's?

Question

Thanks to anyone who answers honestly.

Answer 1

There is a website which gives details of eclipses from any location at http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JSEX/JSEX-N...

For Cleveland, it shows the following:

24th December 1973. Partial eclipse from sunrise (07:58) until 09:57 with 28% of the Sun's diameter covered at maximum.

13th December 1974. Partial eclipse from 09:12 to 12:06 with 58% of the Sun's diameter covered at maximum.

12th October 1977. Partial eclipse from 15:30 to 16:50 with 17% of the Sun's diameter covered at maximum.

26th February 1979. Partial eclipse from 10:38 to 13:14 with 75% of the Sun's diameter covered at maximum.

The only one of these happening only in the afternoon was the 1977 eclipse, which was a relatively small partial eclipse, so maybe that was the one you saw.

Answer 2

There were two eclipses between those years which would have been viewable from Cleveland, one in December 1974 and one in February 1979.

The one in '74 was a partial solar eclipse, and would not have passed directly overhead Cleveland, it is likely that from there only a small part of the sun would have been covered, perhaps not even enough to notice.

The one in '79 was a total solar eclipse, and again it did not pass directly overhead Cleveland, so only part of the sun would have been covered up, but it would have been a greater part.

Also, there was a total solar eclipse in March 1970 that passed quite close by, in Cleveland a large proportion of the sun would be covered up, that would be very noticeable. Here is the route for that:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEpl...

And here is the December '74:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEpl...

And the February '79:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEpl...

Here is NASAs eclipse page, you can view details on all eclipses with in the 100 year range 1951 - 2050:

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html