SOLAR ECLIPSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 7

SOLAR ECLIPSE.

VARYING RESULTS.

Some Observations Marred By

Clouded Skies.

VALUABLE DATA OBTAINED.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright)

(Received 12 noon.) NEW YORK, August 31. Complete success marked the work of the Canadian branch of the Royal Astronomical Society on Wednesday in connection with the solar eclipse at Louiseville, Quebec. The members stationed there secured a perfect view of the. phenomenon and also fine photographs of the saddle bands which surround the sun just before and after totality.

Valuable data on temperature changes during the eclipse were also obtained.

Although the pictorial quality of the total eclipse was not entirely lost at Magog (Quebec) its value to the GO scientists posted here was nothing.

Colonel J. Waley Cohen, one of the officials of the British Eclipse Expedition, described it as a total failure. The heavens became increasingly dark. There wae a slight rift in the clouds and the narrow rim of the sun appeared like a new moon, then the darkness became suddenly more intense, and 100 seconds' totality' occurred. The light returned as though the dawn were breaking. There was a pinkish glow in the clouds but the sun did not reappear. , •

At Conway, New Hampshire, the eclipse of the sun was apparently a total failure from the standpoint of mdst of the scientists gathered there. Dark clouds ohscuved the phenomenon at the moment of totality..