The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-06

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THE ECLIPsE.-No total eclipse of tn,
sun has been visible In any consid
cradle portion of this country since 1884
and none will be visible after this yeal
during this century. 1t 10 therefore Of
unusual event. 1t is common 9esough
if it is simply to occur somewhere ON the
earth; but that is very rare when CON,
fined to particular places and countries
may be illustrated by the fact that the
Astronomer HALEY, in l715, computed
that up to that date no total eclipse OF
the sun had occurred at London fol
o period of 575 years, and since 1715
none had occurred at that place. AT
Paris during the eighteenth century but
one total eclipse of the sun was seen,
that of 1924, and daring the nineteeth
century none has been or will be seen
there.
The total eclipse, tomorrow will be
visible along track 140 miles wide and
$500 long. All places situated ia the
central line of the track of tie eclipse
will have the sun totally obscured for a
period varying from pm. 2ss. to 3m.
Abs, according to geographical posi-
ton. Places situated on the borders of
the track, or about seventy miles out
side of the central line, will have the
sun just covered completely for an in
slant, and the duration of the total
phase will be greater the nearer the
place is to the central line. Outside of
the track of total phase, on the nothern
side, only partial eclipse of the SUMS
southern limb, and on the south side of
the track partial eclipse of the north
ern limb will be seen.
The eclipse in this section will be
only partial, but unusually large. We
being north of the line of totality.
Something more than nine-tenths of the
suns disc will be obscured to us. 1t
will be visible, as nearly as we can cal
culate it, in Wheeling as follows:
Beginning. Northumberland h 40 m evening
Middle. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT So IN
End OF Eclipse. % d u III
A bit of plain glass, smoked over q
candle or lamp, in some parts more
deeply shaded than in others, to suit the
varying intensity of the sums rays dur
ing the progress of the eclipse, will en-
able the observer to see most of the
phenomena. A piece of red or ruby
tinted glass, of different shades or
depths, may be used with advantage in
stead of smoked glass Those who can
command good opera glass, or small
telescope of any kind, provided with a
shade glass to screen the eye. will of
course have better view.
The cause of the total eclipse being
restricted to a comparatively narrow
track, one hundred and forty miles wide,
is defined as follows by recent writer
on the subject of the approaching phe-
nomepa:
The rays of light coming from the ex-
treme borders of the suns spherical
body in straight lines, and without
previously crossing, to the outer borders
of the moons much smaller globe, form
a cone with its vertex pointed towards
the earth-that is on the occasion of an
eclipse like that which will be witnessed
in August. OF course, the Opaque body
of the moon eats ont all the light from
this cone between her own sphere and
the vertex. In the approaching eclipse
this cone reaches to the nearest surface
of the earth; and, if it were a material
solid body it would pierce down toward
the earth's centre so far that the section
of the cone by the earth's surface form
nearly a circle of about 14O miles in di-
ameter. All persons and places within
the limits of this circular section of the
moons conical shadow are of course in
volved in the blackness of night. The
brighter stars and planets near the
region of the sun and moon ap-
pear; the birds and beasts, i'll great
terror at the unusual and sudden
approach of darkness, seek the near
est places of shelter and repose.
But this circular shadow, of lao miles
diameter, does not remain long on the
same part of the earth's surface. For
the moon is flying around the earth in
her orbit from West to East with the
velocity, on the 9TH of August, of about
40 miles per minute; and the shadow
passes over the earth's curved surface
with the increased velocity of about IA
miles per minute, or nearly three.quart-
ers of mile every second of time.
Hence the whole circular shadow, OF
one hundred and forty miles diameter,
sweeps owe the earth, in general d.
rection from the west toward the east,
forming a belt of its own width, more
than six thousand miles long, IN the
short time of about two hours and a
half.
EFFECTS OF THE TOTAL ECLIPSE.
Those who have witnessed the previ-
Gus total eclipse of the sun, describe the
rush of the black wing of night as some
thing peculiarly impressive.
1t would not be surprising if many OF
the phenomena which are usually pecu-
liar to the total phase, should be gener-
ally observed even in the partial phase
of the eclipse tomorrow in this region
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