LOCAL OBSERVATION
The total eclipse of the sun ;which' takes place tomorrow morning, and' to view which a New Zealand expedition is now on Canton Island, will probably just miss being visible in Wellington as a partial eclipse. At the time of sunrise, which is about 7.12 a.m., 0.06 of the sun will still be obscured by the moon, but since the eclipse ends at 7.19 there- will be a very small possibility of seeing anything at all of it. By the time the sun is high enough to be seen, the eclipse will have practically -terminated. In the far north of New Zealand and in the East Cape region, if the weather is clear, 'it may be possible h to see a trifle more of the eclipse, but even there at the time of sunrise the sun •will be eclipsed to only a very small degree. The area where the sun is totally eclipsed is far away from New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. This eclipse is remarkable for its long period of totality—over seven minutes, which is very near the maximum possible, but at Canton Island, where the New Zealand and American eclipse expeditions are, the period of totality is nearly four minutes only. The eclipse is also remarkable for the fact that it ends on the day before it begins, this being accounted for by the fact that its path crosses the date line.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 9
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237LOCAL OBSERVATION Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 9
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