THE MOON’S ECLIPSE
VISIBLE IN INVERCARGILL. From six o’clock last evening many Invercargill residents periodically left the warmth of their firesides to observe the different stages of the eclipse of the moon. Though at intervals clouds obscured the moon, for the greater part of the evening conditions were highly favourable for observing the eclipse. By 6.30 there was a distinct shadow over the moon’s edge and it gradually encroached over the lunar disc until 7.43 p.m. when totality began and the moon received no light directly from the sun. Shortly after eight, however, the shadow had slightly passed off and by 9.36 p.m. the umbra had left the moon. It was not till 10.45 p.m., however, that, with the disappearance of the penumbra, the moon had regained her full brightness.
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Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 8
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130THE MOON’S ECLIPSE Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 8
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