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The total solar eclipse of 18 August 1868 was observed in Aden, India, Siam (present-day Thailand) and the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). One Indian expedition was sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society, and led by Major J.F. Tennant. In this chapter we describe the observing team and instruments, discuss their observations, and conclude with some remarks on the place of the 1868 eclipse in solar studies and later nineteenth century European astronomical expeditions to India.
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We wish to thank Dr. Jean Meeus (Belgium) and Dr. Salvo De Meis (Italy) for their advice and for kindly providing Fig. 25.1.
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Orchiston, W., Lee, EH., Ahn, YS. (2017). British Observations of the 18 August 1868 Total Solar Eclipse from Guntoor, India. In: Nakamura, T., Orchiston, W. (eds) The Emergence of Astrophysics in Asia. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62082-4_25
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