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Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1933, Page 3

The year 1933 will not go tory as remarkable for eclipses. During the year there will be two eclipse®:.; of the sun, both of which will be zap- : nular, and neither of them will b« visible in New Zealand. There willbea no eclipses of the moon this year. Sintw the century opened there have - be<?n seven years—l9o4, 1908, 1915, 1922, 1926»: 1929, and 1933-during which no lunar eclipse has occurred. An annular eclipse of the sun is of small interest to the astronomer, or to anyone matter, compared with a total eclipse. celestial bodies are arranged at there are always at least two eclipses every year, and sometimes as many as seven, but never more. An -av<«agfe number is four, two of the sun and twq of ths mnnru