Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-17

The Eclipse ui the Suus
I'm wednesday morning, the 18th inSt.'
there win be an eclipse Of the Sun, partial
here with total obscuration at Olympia, Ore
gop and In Washington Territory, but not
olssvbere in the United States. BY clock
time the eclipse viii begin at Cleveland at
sb. 55m. A. NJ; the greatest observation VIII
he at : o'clock so minutes, A. NJ; and the
eclipse win end at sh. o2m. A. NJ. AT
Cleveland il will commence on the upper or
North-wcstern edge Of the sun, and pass over
tho sun in South-easterly direction, and
terminate on the Southeastern edge OF the
sun. AT the greatest obscuration at Cleye-
land. the sun will be 4 s3-lOO parts eclipsed,
or about one-hulf its diameter. During its
continuance the planets Mercury, Venus, Ju-
piter, and Saturn win be visible together in
the form of rhomboid, an exceedingly rare
occurrence, as some centuries will elapse be-
fore such a spectacle can be again witnessed.
The Smithsonian Institute at Washington
has aispatched a vessel TO Cape Chidley with
a competent scientific corps to take observa-
tons of the eclipse, and Mr.. Robert Kennicott,
Of Illinois, viii be at Fort Resolution on
Great Slave Lake, directly under the line OF
total eclipse. .
On the 2oth of June, 1906, the centre Of
the Moons shadow passed over the States OF
New York and Massachusetts on the line Of
Albany to Boston, and throughout the space
Of 60 miles to the North and saao % tAa
South Of this line the sun was totally eelipSea
The 5ay was cioudless, and the total obscura-
ton occurred near noon. The frst return Of
tbo eclipse on the 26th Of june 1924 oc-
CURED near sunset and was not SO favorable
for observation. The second return on the
7th of July, 1912, was central in Spain,
France, Germany, sc, and took place in our
night b. --al'.
An astronomical writer says the first ap-
pesrapce Of theeclipse Of the 18th inst, since
the creation of the world according to sacred
chronology was in the year A. D., s5s, De-
cember 8, old style, at 10 o'clock 80 minutes
forenoon. when the moons penumbra just
came in contact with the earth at the south
pole; it has appeared every nineteenth year
since. and at each return the moons shadow
nassed across the earth from west to east
little farther to the north at each return,
until the year l644, March 8, old style, when
the centre Of the moons shadow passed lit
tie to the north Of the earth's centre the
| moon being IA minutes 46 seconds from heT
descending node, which was its 2sth periDdi-
cal return.) 1t has continued to appear
every nineteenth year since l644, until this
ecliDse. which is its sixty-frst periodical re
turn. Its next appearance will be in 1873
July %. at 2 o'clock % minutes in the morn
ing invisible in the United States. 1t vii
also appear again in 1896, August 8. Itwil
continue to appear every nineteenth year IN
til the year 2274, April %, when the moonl
shadow will Just touch the earth at the nort
: nole which will be it's seventy-sixth perlodlca
and last appearance, until the expiration 0
10 4e2 wears, when it viii come on again
J the south pole, and 60 through a simila
, eoursa. The velocity of the moons SHADOW
across the earth during the eclipse will b
about 1850 miles an hour, or four times III
velocity of a ealsROR ball.
During this eclipse the penumbra, or parts
] | shadow of the moon, will hrst come IN COZ
tract with the earth at the rising OF the sun
the northern part Of Texas, between the Indla
Territory and New Mexico; it will then TAX
, a northeasterly and then southeastern
course over the earth. The umbra or toti
dark shadow of the moon, will first come l
contact with the earth in the Pacific Oceal
one hundred miles west Ofthe coast ofOregoI
directly west of Oregon city, and little
TIA Fortlazsast- lsrf ~ me mouth Of Nelson
EtEeEs crossing Hudson's Bay and Labrador :
cape Chidley, which viii be the most favor
aole position on the continent fu-asaa-alady
--4n4.aF-S- eil5 lne southern cape OF
| Greenland, where the sun will be totally
eclipsed at noon of that place; it viii then
take curved line toward the southeast pas
sing over the north of Spain, the Mediter-
ranean Sea, Algers, Tripoli, Fazzan, the
southwestern corner of Egypt into Nubia,
where it will leave the earth near the Red
Sea aittle before the setting Of the sun at
that place |-t. ."
The path Of the umbra, in which the sun
viii be totally eclipsed, will be only about
seventy milesin width whereas the penumbra
in which the sun will appear more or less
ecipsed, will extend from the Gulf of Mexico
to 20 degrees upon the opposite side of the
north pole, distance of over six thousand
miles. The umbra, in its passage over the
earth, makes q curved line; this is caused by
the spherical form of the earth. If the earth
were fat surface, the path of the umbra
would then be straight from northwest to
southwest, making an angle with the equator
ofl7 degrees. At all places south of the line
Of total eclipse the suns northern limb will
be eclipsed; but in Europe, England, Ireland
Greenland, Iceland, and the northern part Of
British American, the southern limb will be
eclipsed.