The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-15
LUNA UNDER A SHADOW.
SaVannahianS See the Eclipse Under
Favorable Conditions.

The Sky Cloudless During the Greater
Part of the Observation and Brilliant
Rainbows in the Mist Banks Add to
the Beauty of the Pioture-Thou-
sands of People Watch the Sight and
Study the Old Man in the Moon
With Cloud on His Face.
The eclipse of the moon took place on
time last night as eclipses usually do.
About half the population of Savannah
saw it judging from the number of people
on the streets and front doorsteps about
! the time the eclipse began, and half an
hour to an hour before. Probably more
| people saw the old man in the moon last
night than have seem him for a long time
before.
All over the city groups of people gath
| cred in the streets, on the sidewalks, in
windows and on front door steps and
waited for the first signs of the celestial
| phenomenon. The clouds which overcast
the sky early in the evening and hid fair
Luua's face from her admirers scattered
by 9 o'clock, and before the eclipse be-
gan only few fieecy shadows scudded
across the sky.
The reckoning for the eclipse, as given
in the MORNING NEWS, was for Goth
meridian time, which many people failed
to take into consideration and missed the
first act of the celestial performance
The eclipse began on the northwestern
limb of the moon and crept on 50 slowly
that, for the first few minutes, it was
almost imperceptible. No living picture
ever had more interested spectators than
did Luna during the time of her partial
| observation. Every kind of glass was
used to watch the progress of the shadow.
| Opera glasses, spy-glasses, smoked glasses
and glasses which were looked through
| from the bottom, and which made those
who looked long enough very dizzy.
| 1t took half an hour or more for the
eclipse to get well on. and as long for it
to get of on the other side. 1t was not
total as good many people, who had not
taken the pains to inform themselves, sup
posed it would be, and in consequence
they were disappointed. One young man
thought it was the fakiest show he had
| seen in long time, and if it were down
for a second night he didn't think there
would be spectators enough to fill the
front row.
AS a whole, the eclipse was a most in
teresting event The latter part Of it
was invisible. Rain clouds and banks of
mist piled up around the moon and during
a part of the eclipse brilliant rainbows
arched over and around it, fading and re-
appearing every now and then. No pic
ture could do justice to the scene. Many
people watched the phenomenon as long
as it was visible. Just as the shadow
disappeared a light shower of rain fell
and heavy clouds banked up, shutting out
the sight and ringing down the curtain,
as it were, on the closing scene.
A number of scientific observations
were made, and the calculations for the
eclipse were verified to second. The
! eclipse was of no special Importance, more
than any ordinary eclipse partial. 1t
was observed, however, in all of the
greater and lesser observatories of the
! country by students of astronomy, and
the results of the observations will be
compiled and made int records of the
great celestial phenomena