Total Eclipse of the Sun.
TrEB tTKIXBD P££Bo ABSOCIATIOK.] T Wmlukotok, AuKust 22. , < Dr Hector' writes te the local- paper , that in the astronomical column- ''in \ *' Nature" of the 28th' Jane th» result' of V more accurate 'compatatioaa are^^iven c of the moon's expected place duriiac the 1 next great total eclipse ex the can,' which occurs on tho 9th September, 1885. The only land 'which' the moon's shadow will cross on that occasion ia 'New Zealand, and it now'appears that the central line i of totality will pass over WeJliagton, * which will be .the' most' important dbserv- * iag stations . Tke total, eclipse -'will • commenoe here on the. morning oflthe. . Slh September, at 7hr SSmin 12see of mean New Zealand time, which it aboat' A *i 't t 1 . ' an hoar aad a half after sunrise.' The , duration of the total darkness will be, lmin 23sec. - 1
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 34, 23 August 1883, Page 3
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