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A solar eclipse at Sparta
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Herodotus (book IX, 10, book VIII, 131, and book IX, 1) reports that another solar eclipse was observed in Sparta during the next year, on August 1, 477 BC. The sky suddenly darkened in the middle of the sky, well after the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis, after the departure of Mardonius to Thessaly at the beginning of the spring of (477 BC) and his second attack on Athens, after the return of Cleombrotus to Sparta. Note that the modern conventional dates are different by a year or two, and that these two eclipse records have been ignored so far.
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DateTime TypeMagnitudeCentral DurationLocationPath width
1 August 477 BC16:35:3357Total1.062705m 53s4.7°N 0.6°E207 km (129 mi)

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Catalogue  Calendar   Greatest          Luna Saros Ecl.               Ecl.            Sun Path  Central
Number     Date      Eclipse    DeltaT     Num  Num  Type QLE  Gamma    Mag.   Lat Long Alt Width   Dur.
                                 s                                          °    °    °   km

03652 -0476 Aug 01  16:35:33  16692 -30617   57   T   nn  -0.0907  1.0627  15N   1E  85  207  05m53s

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