SOLAR ECLIPSE

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1937, Page 7

SOLAR ECLIPSE

EXPEDITION’S READINESS.

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(Recd. June 7, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 7.

A radio message received on Sunday from members of the Solar Eclipse Expedition states:. Eclipse drill was held again to-day and both parties are all preparing for Eclipse Day. All the American instruments are completed, and the "New Zealand Coronagraph ready, but the inch camera will he completed on Monday. Observations indicate that two days in three will be ideal eclipse time. Today, Buddle, Rose and Alton landed on the far side of the lagoon to study the birds. The American Geographical Society photographer, Stewart, has taken a complete record for the expedition of birds in movie and still, and the artist. Bettinger, on canvas. The New Zealanders dined with the Americans, when they took the opportunity to compare progress and discuss problems of observations of the eclipse. Facing the lagoon is the largest assembly of instruments ever erected to observe an eclipse by Americans. Bettinger is painting the corona, and Sanders is taking a movie of the whole eclipse. Navy technicians are making lonosphere investigations. Two radio stations, three miles apart, have made observations and study the signals since landing. The messa”- also gives details of special tasks of other scientists.