INSTRUMENTS READY
OBSERVERS REHEARSING
(Received June 8, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 7. A radio message from the solar eclipse expedition at Canton Island states: "All the instruments are ready and the members of both the New Zealand and the American parties are rehearsing their duties for tomorrow. The probable weather at the time of the eclipse is uncertain. The total eclipse of the sun on June 8 will be a remarkable one from at least two points- of view. It will be the longest eclipse of the sun visible from the earth in 1200 years, having a.maximum totality of seven minutes four seconds. But what sounds more remarkable still, the eclipse will end the day before its starts. This latter phenomenon is accounted for by , the fact that the path of the eclipse crosses the international date line in midPacific, so that it will begin on June 9 but end on June 8. The path of the eclipse extends for several thousands of miles across the Pacific, but Canton Island and Enderbury Island, in the Phoenix Group, happen to be the only islands possessing sufficient terra firma in this vast stretch of ocean from which it will be possible to observe the eclipse with the thoroughness demanded by the astronomers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 9
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