TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
OBSERVATION IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. FIRST EVUNT OF KIND IN ASIA FOR 300 YEARS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. September 20. Scientists of various nationalities are waiting at vantage points in Asia to observe the total eclipse of the sun tomorrow, the first in this area for 300 years, says a Shanghai message. The path of totality begins at sunrise in the northern Caucasus and crosses the Caspian Sea and Central Asia to south-eastern China. Guam and Shanghai. The degree of totality is expected to be 92 per cent. The Chungking correspondent of the Associated Press says the principal observation post for the solar eclipse is at Lintao, where a group of noted Chinese astronomers with the most modern equipment is assembled. In case of cloud observations will be made from a plane. The total eclipse belt stretches for 2500 miles from Sinkiang to Chekiang. The longest period of observation in China will be in north Fukien, where it will be 3min 21sec.
Yesterday the sun was totally eclipsed, but no phase of the phenomenon was visible in New Zealand as the sun had set.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 4
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