The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-27
have gone out to view the Forthcoming
eclipse. n b
WHERE THE ECLIPSE
MAY BE BEST SEEN.

rhe total eclipse OF the sum which VII "
peeu on the 18th Of y tss y5h i AID at
men Of science ali ovet the world. II WIN
5be Visible IN the eastern half Of tva Morrn
1t viii begin ut 5!2y A. Nj. washington
time, and will not be visible west OF q line
drawn through Fort Bclknnp, Montana
cnSSysne a yoemhnSfb has AAnqas
lndlanoa, Texas.
Time for Observation.
A. Nj. ends August 80. 1875 *. NJ.
Boston, August 3oth, begins at 1854 A.
Washington, August Goth, begins at $40
a. Nj; ends August GOTH 7;2o 4. NJ.
christian, begins before sunrise; ends
sewanee, Tenn, begins before sunrise;
ends August 30tll, ga a.. M. 4
chic "a begins before sunrise; ends Au-
August se. o soth, p III a. o NJ su 'us
New Orleans, begins before sunrise; ends
August both, 0:iS AZ Nj. A IA NH
q, Scientists from all over the civilized ma
toas fanpRSs Wih many e
phenomenon aud its Incidental phenomena
With thH q eftesn yeaIrs
piaits lsxss feet, with the biggest Camera
The belt Of. the totally, or total dark
ness, wall lay across the face OF the
earth from Manitoba, British Columbia,
across the Atlantic ocean, to Arabia,
ern Africa and Arabia This belt viii
be 1Go miles wldo and some 5000 miles
long. It win be In total darkneess from
three to eight minutes. It, will be In
VI rr m, n RI rtff ouy IN
1t Is upon this belt that the scientists
will assemble. There will be a cluster
of them In Labrador, another In Spain.
The eclipse is the result Of the disc
I of tho moon coming between the sun and
the ear.h. For the first hour the one
half Of the suns surface y, Will be clear,
disc will Immediately opposite the sum-.
The Stotal darkness will continue on the
belt Of totnlty from three to eight MIN
totally will not appear upon tho earth in
full darkness. but8gwill pass from West
to East at the rate Of 1000 miles per
which will q carry It to Arabia, some
5000 miles away. in three hours a re-
Rood Of the 5esu
Spain. There arc seventeen of them.
and sixteen Of them stand on the line
of tOtluty. The BUnftedt States Naval I'D
Sservatory under tho direction of Rear
Admiral Chester has equipped three ex-
petitions to observe tho eclipse. Tho
Scientific American says. THE equip
1nent OF the parties has been a matter OF;
deep thought and much work to tho
Observatory officials. Experiences In the
f past have proved that things being equal, !,
y the best equipment yields the best re-
suits and that carelessness II equipment
means an irrcparable loss. The timo OF
totally Ia very short and nll the work
which Is done ION the total cell pse,t must
be accomplished In this instance, within
tho limitsGof5 three minutes and forty,
seconds at Burgos. two minutes and
#twenty-pine seconds, sagunto and
three minutes and thirty four seconds at
Sank Ahhuras. Naturally, the apparatus
must be as perfect as Ingenuity and Skin
can make a, and the men operating 7,g
1T, drilled In every movement IN order
that everything may go of without a !.
hitch, and that the maximum amount
photographs be taken n.the allotted ale ed
time. For p1rty No. i. whieh Will 60
( to Burgos. there Is provided first a stu
atlonary camera with Il forty foot. focus
lens Of five inches diameter which pro.
duces the image of the sun on as14xl7
plate. . e. Y
will have a giant camera, It Is e5 feet 4
long and has n lens triple tnhromntic;
made by Brashear after curves computed
The lens Is 1-2 inches In diameter and
produces an Image of the sun seven
inches In diameter }a II