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THE UMOif-RECOHDER, Ml'imertnu GA„ AFXIL 17. ItM
^TAL eclipse of sun
ON APRIL TWENTY-EIGHT
, u w at one point along its path will last
I kU (A a [ only about a second and a half.
IVuiW* k Northwest j The eclipse will not be total
through the entire length of the path
-nil FCLIPSE ELSEWHERE I of the shadow. Before the shadow
^ . reaches the coast, the view of the
Hope to Gu* sun from a ship out in the Pacific
isomers p |. , Ocivin will be that of a ring of fire
I'jluabU !»‘th the round black nha.Joiv of the f rom ttlc Greek
By CALEB JOrlNMJ moon in the middle. This ring effect “helios.”
iuii>. April 28> t * le shadow makes what is called an “annular’’
" '' will fall on the earth In eclipse. And along most of the path
i the moon .....
uo h a «»* **
vhlue. Only a comparatively few
years ago astronomers studying the
corona and the spectroscopic records
of it found some lines on their photo
graphic plates which were not ac
counted for by any of the known
elements. They agreed that there
must be an element in the sun which
was so far unknown on earth. It
would be, they figured, a gas just a
little heavier than hydrogen, the
lightest of all the elements. Long
before any of the substance had been
found it had been named * helium,”
of the sun,
obscured at
s parts of the along which the shadow will travel t
malt* the >ur. will be totally it moves swiftly northeasterly acres*
During the af- the Canadian border, then South of
„ llin of that M t
u-moou
t.*l otemict* 1
oon's shadow °-
[ the cob** ,
Chemists everywhere began to
search for helium. At lost it was
found, contained in the natural gas
from certain wells on Government
property in Texas. A means wa* in
vented of separating the helium from
the other gases, and it proved to have
a weight-lifting power which fitted
it for use in balloons and airships,
with the great advantage over hydro
will be par- j Hudson’s Boy over Laborador and
sun by the j out into the Atlantic Ocean, the view
i .nony parts of thoic directly under the sun will
be of this ring of fire. Only for
c/ the sun is no longer! about 500 miles of its ten-thousand-
r::., wi-rst.tK.ux »«• »«-• mile race ever the surface of the i^' that Tt'iTnit easily mflamnibU.
* Z » liU “*»*« ttib “ elol,c the bc toUI ' F,f ‘y The greet Navy airship "Los An*-
un-ettled parts of the miles or so east of Butte, Montana, eh ,.. is fiUcd with hcUllmi and th(!
a terrifying spec- the ring will begin again. Uniied staU , s has cn „„ eh
euuse is unknown , All along the line of totality, : of this gas on hand, in tanka, to fill
everybody it is an which roughly crosses California just ' the much larger .airships which it is
fBtfosuni; event, and to most of us south of Marysville and Honey Lake, 'now building. Helium has been
, ii.-e of the grandeur and passes over Nevada about 40 mile, found elsewhere only in Canada, but
.nw planetary system in north of Reno, and cuts across the I the United States supply ha» been
« and of which, so far corner of Oregon and the panhandle I greatly increased through examino-
•neerned, the Earth isj Q f Idaho to Montana, astronomers tion of gases from other wells, and
i our interest if not of. with telescopic cameras, spcctroscop-
[ phjscal facL cs and other instruments will be lined
As everybody knows, the moon re-|up from all the great observototiei
I lobrs mound the earth at an aver- 1 of the world, to try to make a rcc-
k distance of abopt 238,857 miles, ord of the sun’s corona, which if
on’s path through the skies visible only at times of total eclipse,
i perfect circle, however. It j This coron a is a halo of flames
't correspond to any fixed w hich constantly shoots out from the
| ailkeinatical form, as .a matter of body of the sun, sometimes to tne
icL At some seasons the moon is enormous distance of a million miles,
mre than 17,000 miles nearer tho or ,n 0re than the diameter of the
rtrthtbn it* average distance; at 8un itself. To the astvoioir.cr, the
i nearly 14,000 miles . chemist and the physicist the study of
! briber
i and the earth move as
*ound the sun, which is
jJmost i>3,000,(|00 miles away, or
three hundred and ninety times as
far from the earth as the moon is.
I The diameter if the moon is only a
1 ..uirter of that of the earth, while
that of the sun i* more than 100
times as great as that of the earth.
Taking the relative *ize of the sun
and of the moon into consideration,
and the irregularity of the moon'
these flames is of great importance.
Every burning substances gives off
light. By the peculiar qualities of
that light .as shown by the spectro
scope it is possible to tell what sub
stance is being burned to produce.
The light from blazing copper, for
example, is quite different from tnai
of burning iron. When nothing ob
scures the face of the sun, the light
which comes from it is what we call
“white” light, which the spectroscope
divide into its component colors,
mg that it but not with such certainty as when
It is
object t
ipmrible. Of Cl
.‘mail as th.- :
very ,r * only the corona tongues of burning
i gets g 0f ,ifi e( j e i em ents are measured. A
completely fj ame a million miles high on
the face of the sun may consist of
j nothing but burning hydrtgen gas,
* it may be iron or go.d heated
for i
i to i
tho poinf whort it l ecoioc.1 a gas arid ' for poking at the
hur.-ts into !. . .
;i shadow big enough to darken the
whole o-irth at once,
Were nearer the sun than the earth
that would be possible, but os it is the
path of any total eclipse is only r
few mile? wide. Outside of the ar
'' totality the ?un is only partly c
of f by the moon.
t*n April 28th the fir?t total eclipse
'' the 5un to be visible in the United
• v at.'S I92f> will be seen as
tal' :v in a small section of the
tr me Northwest. Elsewhere the
t“U appear like a crescent of varying
I »**. according to the distance from
ln <f P»a of the moon’. shadow.
1 f '** Up »f the sh: ow will con
aeoan and will strike
. ' !.V' 1,1 a I' oint in Mardin coun-
■’ “ •" r '- | a, about twenty miles
n,, fth of San Francii
•'trip only a mile wide at the most
ri! ' ho total darkno
rapidly toward Hel-
•uontana. The speed of the
filing shadow is more than 500
l an ‘‘ ,|Ur * so that total darkness
It may seem that there is no prac-
“ “°°J' tical value ir, surh study Of the
sun’s contents but one example will
show that it may be of immense
the whole future of air navigation
seems more secure, all from the ex
amination of the sun’s corona by
astronomers during an eclipse.
Besides the observers the ground
a number of astronomers will go up
In airplanes and try to take photo
graphs of the corona from above the
clouds.
The time when the eclipse will he
total, in the regions where it is total,
will be exactly noon, sun time. That
will bc a little before noon, Pacific
Standard Time, in Calfornia, and a
few minutes after noon, Mountain
Time, at Butte, Montana. In Den-
will be seen as a narrow
crescent of fire at 12.31 Mountain
Time. In Chicago the eclipse will
be like a »* i; ghtly thicker crescent,
and will be visible for a few reconds
.06 Central Time. In Atlanta
only a slight shadow over one arc of
tun will bc visible, and wi'.l be
at 3.08 Eastern Standard Time.
New York will see the run at eclipse
like the moon in its third qunrter,
at 3.27, Eastern Time.
Of course, nobody who values his
eyesight wil try to look at the eclipse
except through smoked glass or some \
other dense semi-transparent medi-
A very good screen for the eyes
i is easily made
by anybody who owns a pocket
camera. Just expose a film pointed i
directly at the sun, for say a half a
second. Then have that film de
veloped. The overexposure will give
shadow
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‘•ling Cardin.
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and nSv ,5 Iny . * was weak
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u '°uld take r d ., WOuld Mhe - I*
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I law some',* ruT m y IwtUo.
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SgSEEg
Jfrlt for 1
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it a uniform dark gray tone through
which it will be difficult to see any
thing except the sun itself, but in
front of the eyes it enables one to
examine the sun without injury.
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“Son, don’t you think you're get
ting too big to be forever begging
for pennies?”
“1 expect you’re right, dad. Gimme
a dollar.
aot, boy, you can t uve on
slender income your mother ms
from selling milk. Doesn’t j
father do anything?”
‘Yes, he pours in the water.”
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