SOLAR ECLIPSE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 221, 1 September 1932, Page 7

SOLAR ECLIPSE

VALUABLE DATA OBTAINED BY CANADIAN SCIENTISTS BERf®CfL’ VI-EW OF BHEIWMENA (United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 1, 10.40 a.m.) New York, Aug. 81. A message from Louisville, Quebec, states that complete success marked the work of the Canadian branch, of the Royal Astronomical Society to-day in connection with the solar eclipse. Members stationed there secured a perfect view of the phenomena and obtained fine photographs of the saddle bands which surround the sun. Just before and after totality valuable data on temperature change* during the eclipse was also obtained. SCIENTISTS DISAPPOINTED. (Received 1, 11.55 a.m.) Vancouver, August 3L A Magog (Quebec) message state* that although the pictorial quality ot the total eclipse of the sun was not entirely lost here, its value to the 61 scientists posted near Magog wax nothing. Colonel J. Waley Cohen, one of the officials of the British eclipse expetJh tion, described it as a total failure. Thu heavens became increasingly darks There was a slight rift in the clouds, and a narrow rim of the sun appeared like a new moon. The darkness bo suddenly more intense as the pe» iod of 100 seconds totality ocurred. Th* light returned as though the dawn wiW breaking. There was a pinkish glow ha tht clouds, but the sun did not reappear. A Conway, New Hampshire message states that the eclipse of the sun wa| apparently a total failure from th* standpoint of most of the scientist* gathered here, dark clouds obscuring the phenomena at the moment art totality.

[See page 5 for article deafasg- wWI eclipses.]