THE SOLAR ECLIPSE
EFFECT OF THE MOON’S POSITION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. PERTH, September 1. Doctor W. W. Campbell, leader of the Eolipse Expedition to Wallal, announces that Professor Tucker, of the Lick Observatory; points out that the moon is in advance of its position in its orbit as shown in the nautical almanac, and therefore it is expected that the solar eclipse will occur about half a minute earlier tllan predicted. It is therefore important that observers should be ready to commence their operations at any instant from twentyfive seconds before the almanac times, ignorance of this fact might seriously upset the observations.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 6
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103THE SOLAR ECLIPSE New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 6
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