New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-12
THE RECENT SOLAR ECLIPSE.

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The first contact took place little over an
hour before totalty and the proceeded on her
voyage tine solar Disc the air became cooler and
dark shadows seen 10 cover the horizon The Cd
servers drawing each others attention 10 the strange
effects OF illumination. invOunary reduced their voice
creased narrow strip of the only was left, and
every bOdy silently Withdrew to his post. a few min
ute more aud the shot out behind the dark edge
or the moOn but a brilliant spark stu showed that
2tOtaly had not arrived, and that the last ray OF
the sun still found its way into atmosphere. The
spark is reduced IN SIZE IL has disappeareG Inc
sgEa is ye1 VINE er Everyone is to
his work silently and steadily. There are moments,
viii 10 remain silent and which, addition to for
which every body was prepared, large brilliant comet
xuectedly seen close t. the sum- remarks were
iu1erchaugcd and words passed which were not the
prOgramme. Luckily, however, no serious disturbance
inoE Mace the totally WIS fully as long as WAS ex-
pected and when the rt ray OF the had forced its
way again tue rctreating mOOn All Observers VINO
coid meatey Judge of their results expressed them
srlycs satisfied /. was time before the photo
graphic results were KNOWN but they also proved salts
An approximate idea Of the results which have been
obtained cannot be easily gwen ut present The obser
yatious want reducing. comparing discussing, and
whatever is said present may be subject 10 alteration
correction, but enough l. known To snow lh al the
trouble taken by tine astronomers mas not Deeh wasted
ana that all the kindness and hospitality shown
by the Egyptians in the interests of science nave been
Well rewarded The French party consisted Of Mcssrs.
Trepied IhOOn, PuiscuX \ great part Of their work
was done during the partial Phase Oi the ceupoe the
edre of the moon was carefully examined by them
vita two identical spectrOscOpes constructed by
NJ ThOllOn, which unite great dispersion Win gOOd
definition. Messrs. TTcpied ans IhOilOn express
themselves with cOmmendaDle caution as TO their re-
suits but there doubt TO certain facts, and
t6e ony eyplanaton which has at present occurred
them Is the existence oil the much discussed, Of1en
doubted sometimes almost dlsprONed, but always sus-
Dected lunar atmosphere.
Professor Tacchni has also secured valuable Observa-
the OF the Little Is known as
To the results OF NJ. lanyard, who accompanied the
French party. He confined himself 10 photography, and
seems satisfied with the plates he has obtained In the
English camp Mr.. LOckyer, assisted by MI Lawrance,
chiefly studied the uppcrmOst layer in the solar surface
and could utilize Tor tins purpose several minutes be-
the phase His results are OF Importance and
in agreement with the phenomena predicted
by him Dr. schuster, assisted by Mr.. Woods,
had charge Of the Photographic instrument.
The plates used had been prepared by Captain Abney
who unfortunately prevented from taking part in
the expedition. As sign of the great Improvement
which has taken place in the rapidy with when pnOO
graphs now be taken, II may be mentioned that
when Mr. Brothers Obtained an Impression of the corona
in 1870 during eclipse which lasted over two minutes
IL was considered triumph Of photography, while
during the present eclipse plate when exposed for
three seconds shows signs OF posture. Tho
addition the first time, Photographic record OF the
spectrum of the corona was obtained with complete
spectrOscOpe. As OF Captain ADneys plates are
sensitive the red we'll in the blue II may well be
the day s at hand If not actually arrived
when every phenomenon seen during an eclipse can be
photographed.
AT conference Of the astronomers after the eclipse it
was decided to give the comet, discovered during
totay, the of the present khedNe IN recognition
great help given bys him To ali observers lhree
DAYS alter the eclipse the Instruments were again in
their cases and only few brick foundations remained
a. uementO OF the important event which had brought
astronomers from different parts OF Europe " the village
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