TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN
SCIENTISTS ON TENTERHOOKS UNPRECEDENTED PLANS IN RUSSIA (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 19th June, 9.30 a.m.) MOSCOW, 18th June. The world’s scientists are on tenterhooks lest a tiny wisp of cloud should shatter their unprecedented plans to observe the total eclipse of the sun on 19th June 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. £IO,OOO has been spent on special equipment.
The American Harvard expedition has the world’s largest camera 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. Preparations were begun in 1934.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19360619.2.8
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 June 1936, Page 2
Word Count
133TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 June 1936, Page 2
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.