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    Dear All,
    Please find herewith the solar eclipse calendar (SECalendar) for September.  If you have any additional information, queries or remarks, please drop us a mail.

    For the whole Solar Eclipse Calendar, see our Solar Eclipse WebPages at

    http://solareclipsewebpages.users.btopenworld.com/

    September 01, 1859  In 1859, the first solar flare ever to be recorded by humankind.  An intense aurora followed the next day.  Two independent observers, Richard C. Carrington and R. Hodson (UK), described their experiences in volume twenty of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  They are the first to observe a flare on the Sun and they both note that a magnetic storm in progress on earth intensifies soon afterwards, but they refrain from connecting the two events.

    September 02, 2817  Total solar eclipse in Amsterdam at sun altitude of 14 degrees.  Annular eclipses in Amsterdam will be on October 2, 2350, March 26, 2639 and May 23, 2878 (the same century as the total solar eclipse).  The total solar eclipse of 2 September 2817 was long considered as being the next TSE.  Though, with the modern calculation programs Emapwin of Takesako and Wineclips of Scsibrany show that the eclipse of 22 July 2381 Amsterdam is within the path of totality.  Ref. Correspondence with Wil Carton September 2003.

    September 03, 0118  ". . . about this time while he was pursuing his studies in Greece, such an omen was observable in the heavens.  A crown resembling Iris surrounded the disc of the Sun and darkened its rays."  Refers to solar eclipse of 3 September AD 118, or possibly AD 96.  From: Philostratus, Greek (died between AD 224 and 229).  Quoted in UK Solar Eclipses from Year 1 by Sheridan Williams.

    September 03, 1885  Bettina 250: Minor planet discovered 1885 September 3 by Jojann Palisa at Vienna.  Named for Baroness Bettina von Rothschild of the Austrian plutocratic family.  In Observator, Vol 8 p 63 (1885) the following info was published: "Herr Palisa, being desirous to raise funds for his intended expedition to observe the Total Solar Eclipse of August 29, 1886 will sell the right naming the minor planet N°244 for 50 £"..(Ref. VK)

    September 03, 1998  SOHO recharged his batteries after months of inactivity.  (Ref DD 09/99)

    September 03, 2081  Next large partial solar eclipse in the Netherlands.  It is not that large as the one of 1999.  Magnitude in Utrecht is 0.902 and 0.939 in Maastricht.

    September 03, 2081  Next Total Solar Eclipse in France, Germany, etc. Next Total Solar Eclipses in Europe:  August 12, 2026 total in North of Spain shortly after sunset.  The year after, August 2, 2027 total in extreme South of Spain and September 12, 2053 total in extreme South of Spain, September 3, 2081 total in France, South in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, etc., September 23, 2090 total in northern France and the southwestern Belgium at sunset.

    September 04, 0501  <The sun was red and dim; within it there was a single black spot.>  Ref BAA 6/00

    September 05, 1923  Minor planet (1005) Arago Discovered 1923 September 5 by S. I. Belyavskij at Simeis.  Named in honor of François Arago (1786-1853), since 1843 director of the Paris Observatory, life-secretary of the Academy of Sciences, politician and author of the four volume Astronomie Populaire (1854-1857). (H 96)  Arago is also honored by craters on Mars and the Moon. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 05, 1984  Landing of STS-41D Discovery: 6 astronauts, of whom 1 paid passenger.   3 satellites launched.  Big solar panel folded open and shots made with IMAX-camera.  1rst flight for Discovery, 12 for all shuttles together (Ref DD 9/99)

    September 06, 1892  Birth of E. V. Appleton, British physicist.  Studied relation between solar and earth atmosphere.  Got Nobel price in 1947 for physics.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 07, -0246 (247 BC)  "[D]iary for year 65 (SE), king Antiochus . . . [month V]. The 28th, 74 deg after sunrise, solar eclipse (at) 5 months' distance; when I watched I did not see it."  Refers to a solar eclipse of 7 September 247 BC, predicted to take place in Babylon, but which was actually far north of Babylon.  Babylonian tablet in the British Museum. Quoted in Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, by F Richard Stephenson, Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 122.

    September 07, 1820  Partial eclipse in England but annular over the Isles of Shetland.  The trial of Queen Caroline was going on in the House of Lords, and the House suspended its sitting for a short time for the sake of the eclipse.  (ref. Chambers, The Story of Eclipses, 1899)

    September 07, 1858  Neither at Olmos nor Piura, did any enceinte woman leave her room during the eclipse, whilst some from curiosity, but more through fear, were in the streets, yet not daring to look upon the sun, lest malady befall them. The somber green light gave them the appearance of corpses, and they apprehended that a plague might be visited upon them. Afterwards, the muleteers told us that their animals stopped eating, and huddled together in evident alarm."  Lieut. J M Gillis An Account of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on September 7, 1858, as Observed Near Olmos, Peru in Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. 11, April 1859, Smithsonian Institution.

    September 07, 1956  Minor Planet (2165) Young  1956 RJ. Discovered 1956 September 7 at the Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn, Indiana.  Named in memory of Charles Augustus Young (1834-1908), known affectionately as "Twinkle" Young by the Princeton students. He accepted the professorship of astronomy at Princeton in 1877, the year that his most famous student, Henry Norris Russell {see planet (1762)}, was born. Earlier he was a professor at Dartmouth, as his father and grandfather had been. He discovered the green line ($lambda$5304) in the solar corona in 1869, and the following year he was the first both to observe the "flash spectrum" and to photograph a prominence. In 1876 he made the first use of the grating spectroscope in astronomy for the determination of the Sun's rotation period. The last of his three successful textbooks, Manual of astronomy, was updated by Russell, Dugan {see planet (2772)} and Stewart in 1926. (M 8798)  Name proposed by F. K. Edmondson. Dictiona
     ry of
     Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 07, 1962  (2624) Samitchell  1962 RE. Discovered 1962 September 7 at the Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn, Indiana.  Named in memory of Samuel Alfred Mitchell (1874-1960), a faculty member of Columbia University from 1899 to 1913 and then director of the Leander McCormick Observatory until 1945, known for his work on solar eclipses and stellar parallaxes. His measurements of the flash spectrum at the eclipses in 1900, 1901 and 1905 referred to nearly 3,000 lines. His book Eclipses of the Sun went through five editions. His photographic parallax work with the McCormick refractor resulted in the publication of 2,001 parallaxes by 1950. Subsequent work by van de Kamp {see planet (1965)} and Vyssotsky {see planet (1600)}, encouraged and supported by Mitchell, yielded absolute proper motions of 29,000 stars between magnitudes 8 and 12. (M 10844)  Name proposed by F. K. Edmondson. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verl
     ag
     Berlin Heidelberg

    September 09, 1934  Minor Planet (1670) Minnaert  1934 RZ. Discovered 1934 September 9 by H. van Gent at Johannesburg.  Named in honor of the late Prof. Marcel G. J. Minnaert {1893-1970}, who was Director of the Utrecht Observatory from 1937 until 1963. He made major contributions to solar research and prepared (with Mulders and Houtgast) the Photometric Atlas of the Solar Spectrum. He was an extraordinarily effective lecturer and writer in the popularization of astronomy. (M 3185)  Minnaert is also honored by a lunar crater. Obituaries published in Astron. Nachr., Vol. 292, p. 192 (1970); Orion, 28. Jahrg., p. 195 (1970); Hemel en Dampkring, Vol. 68, p. 289-292 (1970); l'Astronomie, Vol. 84, p. 525 (1970); Observatory, Vol. 90, p. 272 (1970); Sky Telesc., Vol. 40, p. 344 (1970); Nature, Vol. 229, p. 214 (1971); Astrophys. Space Sci., Vol. 10, p. 183-185 (1971); Solar Phys., Vol. 17, p. 3-5 (1971); Astron. Tidsskr., Vol. 3, p. 199-200 (1970); Icarus, Vol. 15, p. 147-148 (1971
     );
     Q.J.R. Astron. Soc., Vol. 12, p. 338-341 (1971); Irish Astron. J., Vol. 11, p. 161 (1973). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 09, 1991  Minor planet (7127) Stifter 1991 RD3. Discovered 1991 September 9 by F. Börngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.  Named for the most famous Austrian narrator Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868). After formative years spent in the Bohemian Forest, he studied near the Benedictine Abbey in Kremsmünster, later living in Vienna and Linz {see planets (397) and (1469)}. In his brillant novels and epics (The Timber Forest, Rock Crystal, Indian Summer and Witiko) landscapes were described in a superb manner. Stifter described the correlation of man and nature in a subtle manner, full of feeling. He dealt with questions of education, love and piety, and he was also engaged in painting and science. He gave full details of the total solar eclipse of 1842 July 8 as observed in Vienna. (M 29149) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 09, 1994  Launch of STS-64 Discovery with 6 astronauts for nearly 11 days.  Experiments with Spartan (solar wind and corona) and atmosphere research with Lite.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 10, 1919  Robert B. Leighton, was born on 10 Sep 1919. OK, during the only total eclipse he tried to observe (Hawaii 1991), he was clouded out.  But, using the 60-ft. solar tower at Mt. Wilson (California) more than 30 years earlier, he had discovered the 5-min. and 15-min. oscillations of the Sun, thereby creating the field of helioseismology, which occupies several dozen scientists around the world today. (GONG, etc.)  (Ref. AL 9/99)

    September 10, 1923  Hildago 944:Minor planet discovered October 31, 1920 by W. Baade at Bergedorf.  German astronomers observed the Total Solar Eclipse 1923 September 10 in Mexico.  After the Eclipse they had an audience with the president of Mexico and asked permission to call this planet after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811) who proclaimed the Mexican independence in 1810.  AN 221, 159 (1924).  Ref VK 6/97

    September 10, 1967  Surveyor 5 (US) makes a soft landing on the moon.  Made more then 19.000 pictures and landed 25 km from the later landing place of Apollo 11.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 10, 1978  Minor Planet  (2100) Ra-Shalom  1978 RA. Discovered 1978 September 10 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.  Named by the discoverer for the Egyptian sun-god Ra, who symbolizes enlightenment and life, and for Shalom, the traditional Hebrew greeting meaning peace. This name is chosen to commemorate the Camp David mid-east peace conference, at which time this unusual body was found. May it stand as a symbol for the universal hope for peace. (M 4548) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 11, 1972  Minor planet 2238) Steshenko  1972 RQ1. Discovered 1972 September 11 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.  Named in honor of Nikolaj Vladimirovich Steshenko {1927-    }, deputy director of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, whose comprehensive support has contributed to the success of the program for the discovery and observation of minor planets. Well-known for his work in solar physics, he is in charge of the program of solar observations from space, and he is the author of the design for the Soviet 25-m-diameter mosaic optical telescope. (M 5850) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 12, 1838  Birth of Arthur J. G. F. von Auwers, German astronomer.  He reviewed the distance of the sun several times, using transits of Venus and a close encounter of a minor planet.  Ref DD 9/99.

    September 12, 1851  Birth of Sir Arthur Schuster (1851-1934).  A comet is discovered and photographed by Sir Arthur Schuster (1851-1934),  Germany/UK, during an eclipse in Egypt: first time a comet discovered in this way has been photographed.  The Total Solar Eclipse had been observed by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920), Ranard and Schuster from England, Tacchini from Italy, Trépied, Thollon and Puiseux from France.  Observation from Sohag at the Nile.  (Ref. Rc 1999)

    September 13, 1178  Vigeois, France .., on a clear day, about the 5th hour, the Sun suffered an eclipse,... (Ex Chronico Gaufredi Vosiensis, Bouquet, 1781, p447)   Ref PG 9/99.

    September 13, 1912  Birth of H. W. Babcock, American astronomer.  Studied magnetic fields of the sun.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 13, 1955  Minor Planet (3167) Babcock 1955 RS. Discovered 1955 September 13 at the Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn, Indiana.  Named in memory of Harold D. Babcock (1882-1968) and in honor of his son Horace W. Babcock, astronomers at Mount Wilson Observatory, the latter also serving as director of Palomar Observatory. The elder Babcock's precise laboratory studies of atomic spectra allowed others to identify the first "forbidden" lines in the laboratory and to discover the rare isotopes of oxygen. With C. E. St. John and others, he extended Rowland's tables of the solar spectrum into the ultraviolet and infrared. The Babcocks ruled excellent large gratings, including those used in the coudé spectrographs of the 2.5-m and 5-m telescopes, and they measured the distribution of magnetic fields over the solar surface to unprecedented precision. The younger Babcock invented and built many astronomical instruments, including the solar magnetograph, microphotometers and
     automatic guiders. By combining his polarization analyzer with the spectrograph he discovered magnetic fields in other stars, and he developed important models of sunspots and their magnetism. (M 15089)  Name proposed by F. K. Edmondson. Citation prepared by J. Tenn.  Obituary published in Q.J.R. Astron. Soc., Vol. 10, p. 68-72 (1969). Harold Babcock is also honored by a lunar crater. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 13, 2003  Julena Duncombe passed away on Saturday, September 13, 2003 at a hospital in Highlands, Texas.  In the 60's and 70's she did the USNO Eclipse Circulars, the most detailed data then available on solar eclipses.  Ref. Bob Morris on the SEML January 2004.

    September 14, 1923  Minor planet (1073) Gellivara  Discovered 1923 September 14 by J. Palisa at Vienna.  Named for the small town Gällivare in Swedish Lapland where in the year 1927 astronomers from several countries observed the total solar eclipse of 1927 June 29. (H 101)  Named by the Austrian astronomer J. Rheden and endorsed by Anna Palisa. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 14, 1994  Ulysses (ESA) reached the south pole of the sun (-80,22 degrees).  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 16, 1950  Minor planet (1613) Smiley  1950 SD. Discovered 1950 September 16 by S. Arend at Uccle.  Named in honor of Charles Hugh Smiley {1903-1977}, interested mainly in orbit computations by Leuschner's method, director of the Ladd Observatory and professor at Brown University, Providence, R.I. (M 3931)  Smiley not only worked on the field of minor planet dynamics. He led 14 solar eclipse expeditions, in Peru, Canada, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and the U.S.A., and did much work on the study of the Mayan calendar. Obituaries are published in J.R. Astron. Soc. Canada, Vol. 72, p. 46-47 (1978); Q.J.R. Astron. Soc., Vol. 19, p. 510-511 (1978). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 17, 1354  " In this year on 17 September that novelty appeared.  The Sun became dark on a Wednesday at about the third hour and it lasted for the space of two hours.  Above the Sun and Moon, which were joined together - that is, the Moon was covering the Sun - there appeared a very large star with fiery rays like a torch . . .  Many people viewed the rays of the small Sun by reflection in a mirror or in clear water. And the rays of the Sun were so small and so dark, on account of the Moon covering the Sun, that there did not remain un-obscured as much as 3 fingers of the Sun. . .  Everyone appeared deathly pale."  Refers to a total solar eclipse in Perugia, Italy, of 17 September 1354.  From: Memorie di Perugia dall'anno 1351 al 1438  Quoted in Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, by F Richard Stephenson, Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 421.

    September 17, 1354  Perugia, Italy  In this year on 17 september that novelty appeared. The Sun became dark on a Wednesday at about the third hour and it lasted for the space of two hours... (Memorie di Perugia dall'anno 1351 al 1438)   Ref PG 9/99

    September 17, 1982  Minor planet (4567) Becvár 1982 SO1. Discovered 1982 September 17 by M. Mahrová at Klet.  Named in memory of the Czech astronomer Antonín Becvár (1901-1965), founder and first director of the Skalnaté Pleso {see planet (2619)} Observatory in Slovakia. Becvár made observations of comets, meteors and the solar photosphere, but he is best known as the author of Atlas Coeli and the more detailed Atlases Eclipticalis, Borealis and Australis. (M 21956)  Becvár is also honored by a lunar crater. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 18, 1783  Death of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Swiss mathematician and astronomer.  Observed transit of Venus in 1769 and determent herewith the distance to the sun being 151.225.000 km.  (ref. DD 9/98, Rc 1999)

    September 18, 1819  Birth of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1868), French physicist.  Photographed the sun and measured the speed of light together with (Armand) Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (1819-1896).  The Royal Society gives 18 or 19 September 1819.  (ref. DD 9/98, Rc 1999)

    September 18, 1896  Death of (Armand) Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (1819-1896), French physicist.  Known for his measurements of the speed of light and he made a daguerreotype (picture) of the sun together with Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1868).  (ref.  DD 9/98, Rc 1999)

    September 18, 1919  Minor planet (922) Schlutia  Discovered 1919 September 18 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.  Named in honor of the important businessmen Edgar Schlubach (Hamburg) and Mr. Tiarks (London) who together supported the Dutch-German solar eclipse expedition to Christmas Island in 1922. (H 89)  Named (AN 218, 253 (1923)) by Schlubach and Tiarks. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 18, 1959  Launch of Vanguard 3 (US).   Studied the sun in roentgen.  Weight only 50 kg and is still in orbit around the earth.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 18, 2620  Next total solar eclipse on the Portuguese island Madeira.  It is since 4 May 292 (23 centuries) that there was a total solar eclipse on that island.  Though, in 292 the sun's altitude at maximum was only 1 degree.  But before that, on 15 May 291, only 12 months from the previous, there is another total solar eclipse.  There was a near-miss in 540 with a magnitude of more than 99%, and in 1781 a total solar eclipse just before sunrise.  (ref. JM 7/99)

    September 19, 1710  Death of Ole Romer, Danish astronomer, in Copenhagen.  From his observations of the moons of Jupiter in 1676, he determined the speed of light.

    September 19, 1950  Minor planet 2513 Baetsle 1950SH.  Minor planet discovered September 19, 1950 by S. Arend at Uccle.  Named in memory of Paul-Louis Baetsle (1909-1983).  See Ciel et Terre Vol 100, No 1, p11-12 (1984).  Baetslé was a professional eclipse chaser.

    September 20, -0600 (0601 BC)  "Duke Hsuan, 8th year, 7th month, day chia-tzu. The Sun was eclipsed and it was total."   Refers to a total solar eclipse of 20 September 601 BC.  From: Ch'un-ch'iu, book VII (Chinese).  Quoted in Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, by F Richard Stephenson, Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 226.

    September 20, 1984  Minor planet (3490) Solc 1984 SV. Discovered 1984 September 20 by A. Mrkos at Klet.  Named in honor of Ivan Solc, well-known Czech inventor of birefringent polarizing filters for research on solar prominences and surface activity. (M 25976) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 20, 1995  Minor planet (7442) Inouehideo 1995 SC5. Discovered 1995 September 20 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.  Named in honor of Hideo Inoue (1917-    ), Japanese astronomer. An astronomy enthusiast while still a child, he studied at the Tokyo College of Physics and at the Institute of Cosmical Physics in Kyoto. While participating in Kyoto University's expedition to the solar eclipse on 1941 Sept. 21 he obtained color photographs of the solar corona, the first in Japan. He later worked at the Peking Observatory, where he calculated the national ephemeris. After the war he taught at technical high schools in Japan. For the International Geophysical Year he led the Higasimatuyama Moonwatch Team. He is also an enthusiastic ham radio operator. (M 34343) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 21, 1941  Last trio of total solar eclipses at one place on earth and occurring within a span less then 20 years.  The total solar eclipses of 21 September 1941, 9 July 1945 and 25 February 1952 were visible in Kazachstan east of Aral Sea in a span of 10.4 years.  The next trio will be in 2045, where there will be total solar eclipses on 12 August 2045, 2 August 2046 and 30 April 2060 visible from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of brasil in 14.7 years.  Ref. More Mathematical Astronomical Morsels by Jean Meeus; Willmann-Bell, 2002.

    September 21, 1922  Chant 3315 (1984 CZ): Minor planet discovered February 08, 1984 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa.  Named in memory of Clarence Augustus Chant (1865-1956), generally referred to as the "father of Canadian astronomy".  He participated in five Solar Eclipse expedition, the most important being the one he led to Australia in 1922 to test Einstein's prediction of the deflection of starlight by a massive body. MPC 12210.

    September 21, 1922  Malabar 754 : Minor planet discovered 1906 August 22 by A. Kopff at Heidelberg.  Named in remembrance of the Dutch-German Solar Eclipse expedition to Christmas Island in 1922.  Malabar is a city on Java. (I. van Houten-Groeneveld) AN 218, 253 (1923) - Ref VK 6/97

    September 21, 1922  Schlutia 922: Minor planet discovered September 18, 1919 by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg.  Named in honor of the important businessmen Edgar Schlubag (Hamburg) and Mr. Tiarks (London) who together supported the Dutch-German Solar Eclipse expedition to Christmas Island in 1922.  Named by Schlubach and Tiarks AN 218, 253 (1923). - Ref. VK 6/97

    September 21, 1922  William Wallace Campbell (1862-1938) and Robert J. Trumler (US) reconfirm Einstein's relativistic bending of starlight during an eclipse in Wallal, Australia.
    September 22, 1968  This Eclipse has been successfully observed in Western Siberia. A number of outstanding Eclipse observers have attended the site of observation (Yurgamysh, Siberia): M.Waldmeier, J.Houtgast, M.Laffineur, G.M.Nikolsky, M.N.Gnevyshev, S.K.Vsekhsvjatsky.  Younger scientists also made observations there in; among those Serge Koutchmy and Rudolf Gulyaev.  (ref. personal mail RG-9/97)

    September 22, 1973  Minor Planet (2721) Vsekhsvyatskij  1973 SP2. Discovered 1973 September 22 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.  Named in honor of Sergej Konstantinovich Vsekhsvyatskij {1905-1984}, professor at Kiev University, a prominent researcher on comets, the Sun and solar activity. (M 7785)  Obituaries published in Ríse hvezd, Vol. 66, No. 5, p. 88 (1985); Zemlya Vselennaya, No. 2, p. 60-63 (1985); Vesmír, Vol. 64, No. 9, p. 538 (1985). - This planet and the following ones are named on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the All-Union Astronomical Geodetical Organization. The initial letters of the four names spell out the Russian abbreviation VAGO (Vsesoyuznoe Astronomo-Geodezicheskoe Obshchestvo) for this body. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 22, 1977  Launch Prognoz 6 (USSR), for study the effect of sunshine on magnetosphere.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 22, 1982  2816 Pien 1982 SO.  Minor Planet discovered 1982, September 22 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa.  Named in honor of Armand Pien, of the Royal Meteorological Institute, Uccle.  Well known for his popularization of meteorology and astronomy.  He has presented the livised weather forecast in Belgium for more than 30 years.  He also popularized solar eclipse pictures on TV.

    September 22, 1982  Minor Planet (3077) Henderson 1982 SK. Discovered 1982 September 22 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa.  Named for Thomas Henderson (1798-1844), Scottish astronomer and noted computer. He was appointed Royal Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope and later Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Henderson computed an improved value for the solar parallax and was the first to measure the distance to a star, Alpha Centauri, in 1839. (M 10846)  Name proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by B. Hetherington.  Henderson is also honored by a lunar crater. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 23, 1791  Birth of Johann Franz Encke (1791-1865), German astronomer.  Studied comet which has the same name (predicted return in 1822).  Determined an accurate value of the sun parallax.  (ref. DD 9/98, Rc 1999)

    September 23, 1819  Birth of (Armand) Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (1819-1896)., French physicist.  Known for his measurements on light velocity and made daguerreotype (photo) of the sun both together with Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1868).  The Royal Society mentioned 23 or 24 September 1819. (ref. DD 9/98, Rc 1999)

    September 23, 1877  Death of Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877), French astronomer.  Believer of the existence of planet Vulcan.  (ref. Rc 1999)

    September 23, 1950  In the paper, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 111, p 477, published in 1951, R. Wilson reported a <blue sun> which was observed over Edinburgh on the afternoon of 26 September 1950.  The sun <was observed to be a deep blue indigo blue> from 3 pm, when it was first noticed, until sunset.  The following day, the sun's colour had returned to normal.  Wilson, who worked on the Royal Observatory, had the presence of mind to take a spectrogram of the blue sun.  This shows a marked extinction of the red part of the solar spectrum when compared to a spectrogram of the <normal sun>, so the effect was not a product of the observer's imagination.  Wilson noted that extensive forest fires had been burning in Alberta, Canada, on 23 September.  The smoke clouds had reached eastern Canada on 24 September, when they were thick enough to blot out the sun.  When the sun did become visible again, it was purple or blue. Ref. New Scientist 11/3/00

    September 23, 1981  Brian Marsden did send an IAU circular of the discovery with the coronograph Solwind (Satellite P78-1).  A comet collision on the sun was detected.  The comet was already photographed in August 1979 but due to the change of the magnet band pictures, it was discovered one year later.  The comet is called Howard-Koomen-Michiels.  Many other sungrazers have been detected and reported later (also SOHO)

    September 23, 2090  Next total solar eclipse in Paris, France.

    September 24, 1898  Birth of Charlotte E.M. Sitterly, American astronomer.  End 20s she worked at Mount Wilson Observatory with Charles E. St. John and Harold Babcock on a study of the solar spectrum.  They analyzed lines in the spectra of sunspots.  She published books about solar spectra and multiple spectra lines.  Ref DD 9/99.

    September 24, 1935  Minor Planet 2213 Meeus 1935 SO.  Minor Planet discovered 1935 September 24 by Eugène J. Delporte at Uccle.  Named in honor of the Belgian amateur astronomer and professional meteorologist Jean Meeus.  ... and improved and updated versions op Oppolzer's canon of eclipses.  Meeus also attended eclipse expeditions.

    September 24, 1960  Minor Planet (2471) Ultrajectum  6545 P-L. Discovered 1960 September 24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar.  Named in honor of the University Observatory at Utrecht, best known for its work on solar physics. Ultrajectum was the Roman name for Utrecht. (M 8799) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 24, 1960  Minor planet (4180) Anaxagoras 6092 P-L. Discovered 1960 September 24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar.  Named after the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (c. 500-428 B.C.). He lived in Asia minor and in Athens, where he became friend of Pericles. He taught that solar and lunar eclipses originated in a scientific way and not as an act of the gods. This was an asebie (outrage against the gods) and Anaxagoras had to flee; he died in exile. (M 22501)  Anaxagoras is also honored by a lunar crater. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 24, 1960  Minor planet (7147) Feijth 4015 P-L. Discovered 1960 September 24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar.  Named in honor of Hendrik (Henk) Feijth (1944-1997), a devoted and true amateur astronomer: making variable star observations is his passion. Since the early 1960s he has been an observer in the variable star observing group Nederlandse Vereniging voor Weer en Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren. Since 1981 he has been this group's representative to the American Association of Variable Star Observers. Feijth has made nearly 100,000 observations of variable stars and has lectured and written articles for journals and books. (M 29672)  Name proposed and citation prepared by T. Jurriens.  Obituaries published in Radiant, Jaarg. 19, Nr. 3, p. 49-50 (1997); Zenit, Jaarg. 24, Nr. 7/8 (1997); Int. Comet Q., Vol. 20, No. 2, p. 53 (1993). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag
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     Heidelberg.  Henk also observed several solar eclipses.

    September 24, 1979  Minor Planet (4687) Brunsandrej  1979 SJ11. Discovered 1979 September 24 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.  Named in honor of Andrej Vladimirovich Bruns (1931-    ), staff member of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, an authority on space astrophysics who has originated several unique instruments for ultraviolet observations of the sun, stars and galaxies from satellites and spacecraft. He designed the large Orbiting Solar Telescope controlled by cosmonauts on Salyut 4 in 1975. A relative of Ernst Heinrich Bruns {see planet (901)}, director of the Leipzig Observatory at the beginning of this century, he is related on his mother's side to Euler {see planet (2002)}. (M 26762; M 27749) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 25, 1644  Birth of Ole Romer in Aarhus.  From his observations of the moons of Jupiter in 1676, he determined the speed of light.

    September 26, 0702  Ch'ang-an reign period, 2nd year, 9th month, day i-ch'ou. The sun was eclipsed, it was almost completes. It was in Chueh (Hsin-t'ang-shu, chap 32)  Ref PG 9/99.

    September 28, 1791  Captain George Vancouver observed this Wednesday morning a partial solar eclipse.  He went on the name the barren rocky cluster of isles, by the name of Eclipse Islands.  The actual date was September 27, 1791 at 22h39m (local time Sep. 28, 6h39m) with a mag. of 0.936.  Patrick Poitevin observed at about the same place the partial eclipse of September 2, 1997 (mag. 0.551) between the clouds.
    September 28, 1971  Launch of  Luna 19 (USSR).  Studied magnetic field of the moon and prominences.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 29, 1956  Minor planet (3447) Burckhalter  1956 SC. Discovered 1956 September 29 at the Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn, Indiana.  Named in memory of Charles Burckhalter (1849-1923), well known for his research in solar-eclipse photography, a founder of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and its first vice president. He became the first full-time director of the two-year-old Chabot Observatory in downtown Oakland, California, in 1885 and built it into an important popular-science institution. Under his direction it was moved to a new building at a darker hill site in 1913 and featured a 50-cm refractor. (M 17028)  Name proposed by N. Sperling with the concurrence of F. K. Edmondson. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 29, 1971  Launch of Orbiting Solar Observatory 7 (VS).  Got in a wrong orbit.  Observed sun in UV, XUV and roentgen.  (ref. DD 9/98)

    September 29, 1973  Minor planet (5791) Comello 4053 T-2. Discovered 1973 September 29 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar.  Named in honor of Georg Comello (1942-    ), Dutch amateur astronomer. His interests in astronomy include variable stars, comets and traveling around the world to observe solar eclipses. Since 1960 he has been employed at the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen, currently as a librarian. He assisted L. Plaut {see planet (1986)} in measuring and analyzing his plates of variable stars and is still on the board of the Working Group for Variable Star Observers. For several years he has been the draftsman of the Sterrengids (the Dutch yearbook on astronomical events), for which he prepares in particular finding charts for minor planets. He has written articles for Hemel en Dampkring and Zenit and contributes to newspapers, radio and television. (M 24918)  Name proposed and citation prepared by T. Jurriens. Dictionary of M
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     Planet Names - ISBN 3-540-14814-0 - Copyright © 1999 by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

    September 30, 1995  Ulysses (ESA) finished its first phase of Solar research.  (ref. DD 9/98)

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