SOLAR ECLIPSE
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hidden by cloud watching observers fail to secure useful data SCIENTISTS DISAPPOINTED
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Rec. Sept'. 1, 5.0 p.m. Vancouver, August 31. | A Magog (Quebec) message states that although tbe pietorial quatity of | the total- eclipse of the sun was not j entirely lost here, its value. to the 60 • scientists posted near Magog was j nothingColonel J. Waley Cohen, one of the officials of the British eclipse expedition, descrihed the eclipse as a total failure from the observer's point of view. The heavens became increasingly dark; there was a slight rift in the clouds and a narrow rim of the sun appeared like a new moon. The darlcness became suddenly more intense, and for 1 minute 40 seeonds totality occurred. Tbe light retuxned as though dawn was breaking: There was a pinkish glow in the clouds^ but the sun did not reappear. A Conway (Ne-w Hampshire) message states that the eclipse of the sun was apparentiy a total failure from the standpoint ,of most scientists gathered here. Dark clouds ob~ . scured the phenomenon at the mo- • ment of totality.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 317, 2 September 1932, Page 5
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