ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
SUCCESSFUL OBSERVATION A GREAT PHENOMENON CAPETOWN, Oct. 2. The observation of the eclipse of the sun will probably prove one of the most successful known. No cloud marred the view of the great phenomenon. Scientists stated that they hoped great discoveries would result from the observation, but it would be many months before the calculations were worked out. The corona shone out in vivid relief for nearly four minutes. Although warned, the natives were most perturbed as the eclipse blacked out the daylight and sudden darkness descended. The stars appeared and an unearthly silence enshrouded the eclipse belt, which is one of the loneliest of South Africa’s semi-desert areas. The work was carried out without a hitch at' the astronomers’ camp. One spectrograph was used to record the spectrum at the moment of total eclipse., It was in a 10-foot pit to protect the apparatus from varying temperatures.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 9
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152ECLIPSE OF THE SUN Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 9
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