ECLIPSE OF SUN
PERFECT CONDITIONS SCIENTISTS’ OBSERVATIONS SYDNEY, June 9. A radio message from the members of the solar expedition states: “Perfect eclipse conditions prevailed and all programmes were carried out, the beautiful corona expending four diameters in each direction.” SUCCESSFUL ELSEWHERE Received June 9, 11.35 p.m. NEW YORK, June 8. Highly successful observations of the eclipse of the sun are reported from mid-Pacific and Peru. Scientists aboard a steamer a thousand miles south-west of Honolulu lengthened their view four seconds by speeding with shadow films. Photographs also were taken from an aeroplane over Lima and from Andean peaks, also at Canton Island. Fearful Peruvian Indians tolled a bell and piped flutes after the fashion of their sun-wor-shipping Incan ancestors. _ -
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 7
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