Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-06
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE
GREAT SOLAR ECLIPSE.
From Packard,s Monthly !

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vanish from The sight, rays of encir
cling light appear and the next mo
i ment, Whenal1 the bright Sun is hidden
/ The pretty Moon rUbs |onr central orb q
4 light and life of its golrious crown
The Sun, far in the back ground of th
celestial picture, is thrown into th
shade by the little, dark Moon inter
| vening in the extreme foreground Bu
the Sun is not extinguished. It's face /
1 hidden, but its glory is still manifes
in the wonderful halo.
The Corona is the Sum 'S-such at Ieas
has been the award of ASTRONOMERS
TIE Moon made feeble efforts 10 CLAIM
it for her own, but the Sun has car
/ ried of the prize. Yet this iittl
| OPAQUE body-incapable Of sheddin.
| any light of its own-hRd TO thrust it
self in betWeen men and the great In
/ miuaFV, in order that the Corona NIGH
| spring forth and be pictured in tn
/ heavens. Even d grain of sand maj
be necessary to understand a noun
Thus much, then, has this little Moor
done for Us. And this is not all. Il
| the Corona, close to the edge of tb,
| Noon, are seen through the teIesco pc
| sometimes by the naked eye-Iittl
| rose-colored protuberances of variout
/ forms. At the time they were first no
/ ticed arose the qustions Do they be
long to the Sun or to the Moon /? iThi
question, too, seems to be settled. jus
as the Moon was getting roundIy be
ore the Sun the Corona and promin
| ences started into view, and as it spec
4cross the disc of the Sun it was seer
to cover the eastern and to uncover the
western prominences, some of which
Dad also been seen entirely separated
from the edge Of the Moon. Photo
srapny, too, has helped to answer this
ques' ion by the, cOincidenc9 of the
.trOunTuanOpe IN the Sunarr.SsfffnFT n
two pictures taken at different epochs
Of totality.
The Corona and the reddish emana.
tions may, therefore, be put down as
belonging to the Sun.
THE CORONA.
We are not yet informed what the
beautiful aureola is. If it indeed be-
longs TO the Sun il must be about eight
hundred thousand miles broad, for it
has been seen nearly as wide as the
Moons disc. Streamers of light have
also been seen extending beyond the
Corona. According to the accounts
given by thos Q who have seen total
eclrpses within the last few years, the
Corona sheds about as much light as is
given by the full Moon. BY some 1t is
described as a silvery light; by Others
as presenting prismatic colors. It
starts out in rays from the dark edge OF
i
begin, and disappears when the bright
sun burst forth again in a line of light
at the western edge of the Moon.
~=te BAILY's BEADS. -ass...-I,4
For some years past astronomers
have seen, when observing total eclipses
with telescopes, very fine notches OF
light in the contract of the edges ofthe
Sun ami Moon, presenting the appear
ance Of heads. They were, for a time,
supposed TO be inequalities in The
Moons surface Mr.. Warren de la Rue,
however, who observed in Spain the
= goTal eclipse of July Is, 1860, says that
he saw no appearance whatever of Bal
ty's Beads. His telescope, he says,
was a fine one, and thus Fl Iee from at
moSpherio disturbance caused by tele-
scopes wanting in perfect definition.
He appears to be certain that the strlnR
of beads along the Moon's edge was an
.tllHsion, and one may well beheve tnat
he is correct, for such regular notching
of the Moons surface can scarcely be
expected to exist IB i3st s1str- -s-s5Istt
PLANETS NEARER THE SUN THAN MER-
Curry. su ~ 2t7aEf
: Astronomers will make efforts to dis
cover one of several small bodies re-
volVinK round the Sun inside of the or
bit of Mercury, which seems to be
somewhat disturbed in its motion, to be
accOu nted tor only in sUpposing such
Planets to exist. fsr-si
WHAT EVERYBODY MAY SEE. f'1
OF course, all the matters here spoken.
of can be examined by those only who
have studied the subject, and who have
the necessary instruments al command;
but every one with good pair of eyes
may have an opportunity OF setting QUE
of the finest events in nature. Mr.
Warren de Ia Rue pays this tribute to
the glory of the scene which is the prop
erty of him whols neither burthen- d
with instruments nor bothered with
calculations, and which shows the writ
er to be true poet as we'll as careful
astronomer ---
ttOnIy a few brief seconds, unfortu-
natsly, could be spared from the tele-
scope alter the totality commenced:
but when had oneA turned my eyes
on the Moon, encircled by the gIor Gus
Corona, then on the novel AID grand
spectacle presented by the surrounding
Iaudscape, and had taken a hurried
took at the wonderful appearance o.
the heavens, so unlike anything I had
ever be ore witnessed, J. was so com
pIetely oehth rallied thatI had to exercisE
the utmost self control to tear myself
away from ascene at once so impTessi We
and magnificent; and it was with q
fee1ing of regret that I turned aside to
resume my self-imposed duties. I well
remember that I wished 1 had never
encum bered myself with apparatus.
and I mentally registered a VisW tbatli-
a future opportunity over presented it.
self for my observing total eclipse,
would give up all idea of making as
Economical observations, and devote
myself tO-thAt full enjoyment of the
spectacle " hiCh can only be Obtainediby
the mere Razer. r -
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felt by the population in the solar
eclipse which he witnessed on the Stb
of July, 1872. Nearly twenty thousand
people, with smoked glasses in hand
examined the radiant globe protected
on an azure sky. SCARCELY had he and
his party, with their powerful telescopes
perceived a little. encroachmeut on the
immense shout, mixed withla ihOUsH nd
exglamations, told them that q eg hd
only by fewu seconds he
observation made with smoked gl9 ) <t-s
by twenty Thousand Inpr0Vised HstrOu-
oIneEs. When however the tOta ptiast
approached, sileucs absolute tOolE posi-
sessiono of the multitude, and the iu1l
pressiVenesS of the 9sceue held every
Hone speIl-boCnd.6 .6u Other observers also
speak of the effect on the minds of1tht
ppOple--Of that solemn stiffness which
total obscdrEtiOn9 of the Sun imposes
|. T5faliF s.I sU- = e EgsIgGE i|H 4a-
.7iaT THE zODIACAL LIGHT. aaa
In our latitudes5I in the spring and
autumn, light, having a conieal form,
Is seen pictured upon the sky in the
twilight of evening or morning, e1teud-
ing obIiquely upward from the Sun and
along the zodiac. II is supposed o be a
light which surrounds the Sun to very
4reat distauce-aVen beyond the orbit
of the Earth.
The Zodiacal Light ought 10 be look-
ed for in every tolal eclipse OF the Sun.
The atmoSl here condition uiie ht some e.
time be sHch as to render it visible. It
would probably sppear as faint and
slender c0uical lights, eXtendingin two
diane trioally opposite directions, with
their bases toward the Sun. ..'-S..
THE MOON COMES our LIKE A BALL. Z
During the progress Of the Moon up
on the SUMS disc, that part. or it ssfll
prajee9ed against the sky has also been
seen--that is to say, tbe whole circle OF
the Moon beeAme visible, and appea red
10 come forward pf She Sun and hang
out in front of it Like q ball. 4Y
Let every man, ~ no ia NOT nlraaff y