ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13610, 18 January 1908, Page 5

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

> SCIENTISTS' OBSERVATiaJSTS/ • Per Press Association* • \ ' - ~ —AUCKLAND, Jarfuary W. ,; Tho Taviuni has returned with. the ? Flint Island? expedMon w3tich w^nt ,yka : witness thfe eclipse or the sun on Janii^ ary 3rd. Mr. McLean states that "tbe* observations were , a ;partialc' . s^isceiis/: Heavy rain fell before Jdawri, t>iit ffom' dawn on the ; weather improved, t For the first minute of the eclipse ii wascloudy^.b^ut,for the remainder the sky" was clear/, 'Four good coronal pJb^tos, were obtained by an eight-feet Ipcu^ , camera. The negatives remaining in tho-oameras have not been developed. No spectrum results were obtained. x The American expedition from Lick . Observatory obtained similar satisfactory resultp.^ „y n, >g , |