ECLIPSE OF MOON
TOTAL OBSCURATION TONIGHT. VISIBLE THROUGHOUT NEW ZEALAND. If the weather is clear, a total eclipse of the moon will be visible throughout New Zealand early this evening. The eclipse will be the first of a series of four to occur this year, but none of the others will be visible in the Dominion. The moon will enter the earth’s penumbral shadow at 5.14 p.m. today, a part of the eclipse which is rarely noticeable. The eclipse, in the popular sense, will begin at 6.27 p.m., when the moon enters the umbra, or earth’s shadow proper. The amount of obscuration will steadily increase until 7.48 p.m.. when the total phase begins. The sun, earth and moon will then be in a straight line. Total eclipse will last until 8.39 p.m. —nearly an hour. Thereafter the earth’s shadow and the moon will gradually part company, the moon leaving the umbra at 10.1 p.m. and the penumbra at 11.13 p.m. The whole phenomenon, therefore, will last for six hours.
A further eclipse, a total solar one, will occur at the end of this month, and then there will be no further eclipses until November, when another group of two, lunar and solar, will occur.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 6
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