Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-09-07

atmosphere, but the red rays, which have the longest waves, are not so much interfered with as the yellow, greco, blue and violet rays, and consequently many of them pass entiI rely through the atmosphere, and being bent out of 8 dl rect line, as described above, fall upon the moon.
 1t is possible, however, for the moon to disappear wheDjin eclipse, but such phenomenon has occurred only two or three times during the nineteenth cen tury. The explanation of such dlspear- Rnces is believed to be that the earth's , atmosphere happens to 5e so filled with clouds at the time that even the red rays of the sunlight are unGbla to pene- trate 1t.
 The coming eclipse will end about twelve and half minutes before , o'clock in the morning. Readers who live where Centeral time is the standard should subtract one hour; those who use Mountain time, two hours; and those whose standard is Pacific time, three hours, from the times given above, in order to correct them for thelr respective localities.
 THE ECLIPSE LOCALLY.
 The Examiner ID a recent issue has an article by Charles B. Hill, giving the To- cal aspects of the eclipse next Tuesday. MT. Hill writes:
 The total lunar eclipse of September should be particularly interesting to students of astronomy on this side. It will occur at a convenient hour of the evening, and our satellite will be com pletely immersed ia the earth's shadow for more than an hour and half. The moon will rise just about sunset, and shoFtly afterward will appear to enter the penGmbral fringe which surrounds the opaque shadow. At o'clocK the eastern lunar border will be touched by the deAser shadow, and sixty-seven min- utes later the entire disc of the moon will be immersed. Uatil quarter be- fore II le "full moon" will be a hollow mockery. If the atmospheric conditfCPs are such as to entirely preclude visibility we will have no full moon at all, but If the ordinary state of affairs prevails we will even then be able to sec the ''pGle moon" as 6 very pale object indeed, faintly glowing with that Coppery-red color which characterizes the appear 8nce of the moon seen through a dense cloud of smoke. The exact times of the occurrence, taken from the "Americsn Ephemeris," and reduced to local stand ard time are 6s follows:
 Moon enters penumbra, September 3, 6h. Sm. p. m.
 Moon enters shadow. September 3, Sh. p. m.
 Total eclipse begins September 3, 9h. 06m. p. m.
 Middle of eclipse, September 3, 9h 57 m. D. m
 Total ecliple ends. September; 1Oh. AS m. p. m.
 Moon leaves shadow, September 3, llh. 54m. p. m.
 Moon leaves penumbra, September 3, In. 06 m., O. m.
 These times given in Pacific standard time hold good wherever the eclipse may be visible. That is, the different phases | Of the eclipse occur at the same physical | instant the world over. No matter | where 1t may be seen total eclipse" will | commence at 17h. 6m. of Greenwich time, or 9h. 06m. Pacific standard time, or h. Gem. Eastern time; in other words, nt the same absolute tune. It is not sc with solar eclipse. Here the eclipse l phenomena are caused by the sun and moon being viewed in the same right line, and when the moon may seem 10 be over tapping the suns disc in San Fran cisco 1t will be entirely free from con- tact, as seen from New York, and go on. But the lunar eclipse IS result of the absolute darkening of the moons rays, caused by her entry into the earth's shadow, and this is not affected by the locality on the earth from which the moon may be visible at the time.