TOTAL ECLIPSE OF MOON.
OCCURRENCE NEXT WEEK. VISIBLE IN NEW ZEALAND. A total eclipse of the moon will occur during the early part of the evening on Wednesday, June 15, and if the conditions are favourable it should be visible throughout New Zealand. At 6.13 p.m. the eclipse will commence, so far as the ordinary observer is concerned, for at tliat time the earth's shadow will make its first appearance on the lunar disc. As the edge of this shadow is hazy and ill-defined it will be possible, if one knows at what part of the disc the eclipse will commence, to watch the gradual darkening at this spot for one or two minutes before first contact is timed to occur. From the moment of first contact the shadow will steadily grow in extent until only a delicate crescent is left untouched. At 7.43 p.m. the shadow will be covering the whole lunar disc, and the total phase will commence. This totality endures -for 22 minutes, and during this time the moon will either disappear from view or appear as a beautiful grey, or a dull copper globe, according to the colour of the shadow at this time, At 8.5 p.m: the eastern limb of- the moon will emerge from the shadow, and the bright area will rapidly increase in size as the moon moves out of the shadow cone. At- 9.36 p.m. the last trace of the shadow will leave the moon, but penumbral eclipse will continue until 10.45 p.m< \ln any year . the greatest number of eclipses possible is seven, either five solar and two lunar eclipses, or four solar and three lunar eclipses. The least number visible in any year is two, which must both be solar eclipses. In 1926 there w«-e only two eclipses, but this year there will be "five: —An annual eclipse of the sun on January 3, -which was visible in New Zealand; the total eclipse of the moon on June 15; a- total eclipse of the sun on June 29, visible in the British Isles; a total eclipse of tlho moon on December 8, visible in Europe; and a partial eclipse of the sun on December 24.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19658, 9 June 1927, Page 12
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