The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-08-19
Total Eclinses This Centurr.

Total Eclipses This Century.
In an interesting article In Mature
particulars are given of twelve total
solar eclipses which will occur during
the remainder of the present century
/. 1882, May II. The most accessible
portions of the central line will be in
Upper Egypt and the extremity of the
Peninsula of Sinai. The central eclipse,
passes off the Asiatic coast near Shang-
hal.
2. 1883. May 6. The line of totaity
faces In the Pacific Ocean. Eclipse lasts
six minutes.
8. 1885, September s. Visible IN
New Zealand soon after sunrise.
4. 1886, August 49, Totally lasts
six minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
Central line passes across the Atlautlc
and over South Africa. Duration ct
eclipse when it reaches African coast.
four minutes and thirty. eight seconds.
This eclipse is repetition OF that OF
1868, August Stfl, and will recur 1904,
September 9th, in mid-Pacifc, and
1922, September 21st, visible on east
coast of Australia, where the duration
will be about three and half minutes
5. 1887, August 10. Eclipse begins
in IL degrees 80 minutes east and 81 de-
grees 80 minutes north. It will be most
favorably observed in Asiatic Russia,
but some fifty miles north of Moscow.
The total eclipse will continue two min
utes and thirty eight seconds, with the
sun at an altitude of seventeen degrees
At Berlin the sun will be totally eclipsed
Immediately after rising. On Lake
Baikal totality will continue about three
minutes and thirty eight seconds, with
the sun near the meridian.
6. 1885, December %. The greater
duration of totality IN this eclipse falls
upon the Eastern Atlantic, but where
the central line meets the African coast
in Angola (about 10 degrees 6 minutes
south) it continues three minutes and
thirty-five seconds, with the sun at an
altitude of 56 degrees.
7. 1892, April 26. Almost entirely an
ocean track on the South Pacific an
impracticable eclipse.
s. 1893, April 16. Probably the
most favorable eclipse occurring before
the end of the century. On the west
coast of South America, rather less than
degree north of Coquimbo, totality
will continue nearly three minutes
hence the central line trayerses Brazil,
passing off the continent near Clara,
and here the sun, near the meridian,
will be totally eclipsed four minutes and
forty-four seconds. After traYersing the
Atlantic it enters Africa close tO"Bat-
hn bot lrNh 10 oh
four minutes thence though Central
Africa to a point west of Khartoum.
8. 1894. September %. Either 8
seatrack or passage over inaccessible
regions, except that the eclipse may Ill
timately be found to be total in the
Seychelles. The central line begins in
the middle of Africa just north of the
equator, leaving that continent near the
Juba River and ends near Macquarie
Island.
10. 1896, August 8. The central
line enters Norway in Tana, near Fin
mark, and in % degrees 46 minutes east
duration of totality is one minute and
River the totality continues two minutes
and thirty-eight seconds. The total
eclipse may be observed in the northern
parts of Jesse, Japan. This will be
recurrence of the eclipse of 1906, June
16, observed in this country by Bow
ditch. Its last recurrence was on July
30, 1873, the central line passing down
the Rock Mountains.
IL. 1889, January %. This eclipse
may be well observed in Hindostan to-
tality will continue about two minutes
and six seconds.
u. 1900, May %. The central
line begins in the Pacific In Is degrees
north, traverses the southeast portion Of
the United States, from Louisiana (not
far from New Orleans) to Norfolk, Oh
the Atlantic coast, and at the point
where it leaves the American Continent,
totally begins about 8:47 a. M, and
continues one minute and forty seconds.
Crossing the Atlantic, upon which the
greatest duration of totality falls, it
enters Portugal near Ovan, where the
total phase continues one minute and
thirty seconds. The eclipse may be well
observed in Portugal and Spain. It
will be a recurrence of that of May,
! 1882.