The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-25

will take place at Camp Funston al
$50 p. m. June s. A total eclipse
of the sun will not~be seen here
On Saturday afternoon, June 8, an
eclipse of the sun will be total every
where within, but nowhere without. a
very narrow belt stretching diagonally
across the United States from WASH
ington and Oregon southeasterly to
Alabama and Florida. This belt is
marked by the tip of the moons dark
is sixty-five miles wide in Oregon,
fifty-five in southwestern Kansas,
narrowing to forty-five in Alabama,
and is only forty miles wide where the
shadow leaves the coast of Florida.
So swiftly does the moon travel that
it's shadow sweeps across the entire
country in about three-quarters of an
hour Places on or near the middle
of this path are South Bend, Wash. /:
Goldendale and Baker, Ore.; Haley,
Ida; Green River. Wyo.; Sulphur
Springs and Kiowa, Col; Ashland.
Kan; Henrietta. Okla; Fordyce. Ark /;
PauIding, Miss; ST. Stephens, Ala.
and Orlando, Fla.
SUMS Corona Appears.
When the eclipse becomes total, the
suns corona appears; and the length
of time this radiant halo can be seen,
along the line of places just named.
will vary from fifty seconds on the
Florida coast to 12o seconds on the
Pacific coast. The time of total
eclipse will range from 2:55 Pacific
standard time on the Pacific coast.
ABS Mountain time at Denver, $50
Central time at Enid. Okla. to 5:42
Central time at Orlando. Fla. Pre-
ceding totality, the sun will go thru
all stages of partial eclipse. beginning
on the suns west edge fully an hour
before the total eclipse; and in the
reverse order for nearly an hour after.
At all places in the United States.
either north or south of the shadow
path, the eclipse will be visible in its
partial phases only; the eclipse bein 3
Ore, Salt Lake City. Colorado Springs,
Vicksburg and Tampa on the South !;
while Seattle, Greeley, Little Rock and
St. Augustine just escape a totality on
the north. At no place can cloudless
skies be predicted with certainty
Observations of the state of the sky
have been made all along this path
every year since 1912. indicating that
chances are rather better in Idaho,
Oregon. Kansas. Oklahoma and Flor
ida.
Naked-eye observations of all phases
of the partial eclipse are better made
thru neutral tint glasses or smoked
glass, which is easily prepared from
lantern slide glass or a small pane of
good window glass by holding it in
flame of lamp or candle until
black film is deposited. Smoke it until
the film is so dense at one end that
the full light of the sun seen thru it
will not da zzle the eye: while at the
other the film should be so thin that
objects in an ordinarily lighted room
may be seen distinctly. Graduate the
amount of smoke as evenly as posi-
BILE from one end to the other. Paste
a narrow strip of thick paper across
each end of the glass. on the smoked
side. and lay on it a carefully cleaned
sheet of unsmoked glass of the same
size. Then secure the two sheets to-
gether by a strip of paper pasted
around the edges of both plates, just
as a lantern slide is mounted.
In Form Of Crescent
When the suns light is nearly shut
off by the advancing moon it will be
quite dark, and that part of the sun
visible will have the form of cres-
cent, the horns of which will rapidly
approach each other as the crescent
becomes thinner and thinner. Imme-
diately the crescent has vanished, to-
tai eclipse will begin and the corona
will become visible with great sud-
denness- Its figure is irregular. and
its light very mild; in some parts on
the edge of the moon it may appear