TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 April 1922, Page 2

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.

NEW ZEALAND ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY.

The-London Times states that the 'Commonwealth Government will place a warship at the disposal of astronomers who are going to visit the north-west of Western Australia in September, to observe the total eclipse of the sun on •September 21. The apparatus is to be established at Wallal, a. lonely goint on the coast between Port Hedland and Broome. The party, for whom an observation camp will be created, includes Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of ;the Lick Observatory, California, and Mrs. Campbell; Dr. Moore and Dr. Trumpler, also of the Lick Observatory; Dr. and Mrs. Adams, of New Zealand; Professor Chant and three assistants from Toronto Observatory, and Australian astronomers. The naval Meteorological Department is making arrangements for the reception of the visitors. The path of totality will be covered as follows: It begin in Abyssinia, and passes over the centre of Italian Somaliland, and across/the Maldive Islands, where Mr. J. Evershed, director of Kodaikanal Observatory (India), will be stationed. Thence it passes across the Indian Ocean to Christmas Island, the most favourable of the places where observation is feasible. Two expeditions are going there, one a British expedition from Greenwich, consisting of Mr. H. Spenser Jones (chief assistant), Mrs. Jones, and Mr. P. J. Melotte, the discoverer of the eighth satellite of Jupiter ; the other, a joint Dutch and German expedition, which Professor Einstein may possibly accompany. Dr. Trumpler is expected to pass through Wellington en route from the Lick Observatory to Wallal, about June 6. He will remain some time at Tahiti, where he will take check photographs of the eclipse region of the sky some months before the eclipse takes place.