ECLIPSES IN 1926

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1925, Page 2

ECLIPSES IN 1926

This year tuort* will occur the minimum number of eclipses which can occur in any year, namely two. both of the sun. Unfortunately neither of them hei'C.

The first of these is ;i total eclipse of the sun, which will he visible. generally as a partial eclipse in Eastern and South Africa. Southern Asia. North-western Australia, and the Indian Ocean, on Jaminrv I*l.

The other is all antiular eclipse of the sun. which will lie visible generally as a partial eclipse over tlie North Pacific Ocean on July 10 at lOh. 35m. a.m. New Zealand time. Incidentally, it may bo of interest to note that while there e.'iiiriot he fewer than two eclipses in any one VC ar, there als« cannot be more th*n seven, of which five may be of the sun and two of the moon, or four of the sun. and three of the moon. Speaking generally there are more eclipses of the sun than of the moon ; i.e.. in a period of eighteen years (the Saros of the Chaldeans’) there are on an average seventy eclipses—forty-one of the sun and twenty-nine of the moon. Nevertheless. more eclipses of the moon aie seen at any specified place on the earth because a lunar eclipse is visible to a whole terrestrial hemsiphere- at* once, whereas a solar eclipse is visible to only a small portion of it.