The synodic month in which the eclipse took place had a Brown Lunation Number of -9763.

Records of this eclipse have helped determine the historical rate of the deceleration of Earth's rotation.

This perception was underscored by the fact that it coincided with the final departure of King Henry I of England to Normandy, shortly before the country was thrown into chaos and civil war.

[5] According to him, the “hideous darkness agitated the hearts of men.”[6] In Germany, the eclipse was regarded to predict the sacking of the city of Augsburg and the massacre of its inhabitants by Duke Frederick.

[7] The eclipse is mentioned in the Peterborough Chronicle, the Annales Halesbrunnenses,[8] two of Cosmas's continuators (the canon of Vyšehrad and the monk of Sázava),[9] the Codex diplomaticus Falkensteinensis[10] and the Chronicon Scotorum.