ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
OBSERVATIONS TODAY
UNPRECEDENTED PLANS (Received June 19, 9.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, Juno 18. World scientists are on tenterhooks lest a tiny wisp of cloud shatter unprecedented plans to observe the total eclipse of the sun on June 19 which 41 expeditions, 13 of which are foreign, are observing from 17 different points in Russia from the Black Sea to the Pacific. British scientists are operating from Siberia and Japan, £10,000 having been spent on special equipment. An American expedition from Harvard has the world's largest camera and spectroscope. Soviet astronomers are sending up aeroplanes and balloons and also hope to take films from the stratosphere. Each group of scientists is concentrating on special observational problems. The preparations were begun in 1934.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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124ECLIPSE OF THE SUN Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9
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