SOLAR ECLIPSE

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 12

SOLAR ECLIPSE

BRITISH OBSERVERS

Particulars' of the scientific expedition which is going to Siberia to observe the total eclip'a of'the sun on June 9 were published in "The Times" recently. A second expedition, : led by Professor F. J. M. Stratton, Professor of Astrophysics at Cambridge University, and Director of the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge, is going to Japan for the same purpose.

Professor Stratton, accompanied by Major R. A. Bugnold, Royal Signals, has left London. They were to be joined at Colombo by Dr. T. Royds, Director of the Kodaikanal Observatory, S. India. Other members of the expedition are Dr. R. O. Redman, Assistant Director of the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge, Dr. F. W. Aston, F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Mr. A. D. Thackeray, of King's College, Cambridge. Mr. C. W. Allen, of Mount Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Australia, and the Rev. G. H. Marsden, Principal of the London Missionary Society Scott College, Nagercoil, India. The party is going to Kamishari, near the north-east coast of Hokkaido. There will be'll7 seconds of.totality, during which it is hoped to photograph the eclipsed sun with a number of different instruments—long focus cameras, spectrographs, and polarigraphs —in order to obtain the.greatest possible amount of new information about the outer layers of the sun's I atmospher'" . ,