ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
PLANS FOR OBSERVATION
PREPARATION IN RUSSIA
FORTY-ONE EXPEDITIONS
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. June 19, 11.50 a.m.) MOSCOW, June 18. The world's scientists are on tenterhooks lest a tiny wisp of cloud should shatter the unprecedented plans to observe the total eclipse of the sun tomorrow and 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. The sum of £IO,OOO has been spent on special equipment. The American Harvard University expedition has the world's largest camera spectroscope. Soviet astronomer* are sendung up planes and balloons also in the hope of taking "close-up" films from the stratosphere. Each group of scientists is concentrating on special observational problems. The preparations were begun in 1934,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 5
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