The Coming Eclipse.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 65, 13 September 1895, Page 2

The Coming Eclipse.

" Observer " writes to the Wellington Post : — " There will be a large eclipse of the sun on Thursday, the 19th instant, commencing at 6h 29m a.m. The ipiddle is at 8h 14m a.m., the end at 9h 59m. The eclipsed sun will look about 4s large as the moon is when five days old> The only things to be noticed will -be the ragged edge of the moon as its mountains are thrown up by the brigb'kess of the sun's disc, and a possible Weening of the daylight and temperature. \ It is strange how, even m valuable boofcs on astronomy, the diagrams of a /solar eclipse show a round dark moon sst the commencement of the eclipse. In S/Outh* ey's ' Thalaba ' the hero has to lea^e hia tome when the sun is darkened at day. Nothing of the moon can be Seen, from the brightness of the sunlit atmosphere, until the advancing moon r "hides somewhat the sun's brightness, aqdthat brightness begins to show out at th<£ edge of the moon, yet outside the sun's; disc. Let us hope for better weathers than that at the ehpse of the moon thefother day." I A correspondent in Dunedln Writes on the same subject, to a Feildihjj resident, as follows : — Raphael prtedicts serious earthquakes in New Zea.laird on,, or soon after, the partial eclipse 6& the sun, which takes place on the morning of the 19th of September in New Zealand, and will be visible over the wl^ole of the North and South Islands. On page 62 of the Almanach he says, • T?he chief effeots of this eclipse will be f^lt (sic) in New Zealand where serious earthquakes may be expected and some excitement. I suppose the chief base its operation will be centred in an\d around volcanic regions, and most probably they will embrace the greater portion of the North Island, where some considerable upheavals, wjll m &\\ psofc? ability bq experienced with 1 likely loss o{ life." 1 Taihoa.