Eclipse of Sun
SCIENTISTS’ PLANS Forty-one Expeditions In Russia SPECIAL EQUIPMENT ■‘By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 30, 30.30 a.m.; MOSCOW, June IS. The world’s scientists are on tenterhooks lest a tiny wisp of cloud shatter unprecedented plans to observe the total eclipse on the sun to-morrow, 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 to Japan. A sum of £lO,OOO has been spent on special equipment. The American Harvard expedition has the world’s largest camera and spectroscope. Soviet astronomers are sending up planes and balloons, and also hope to take close-up films from the stratosphere. Each group of scientists is concentrating on special observational problems. Tlie preparations were begun in 1934.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 158, 19 June 1936, Page 5
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