The Cordova daily times., 1918-05-17
TOTAL ECLIPSE
Of SUN FORECAST
To OCCUR JUNE 3


eclipse of the sun forecast to occur
on June has been postponed for one
hour. This is not the result of any
error in the calculations of the as
trOnOmers, nor is it due to an order
by a modern Joshua that the sun
stand still, but is chargeable to the
operations of the daylight-saving law.
as result of which the clocks
throughout the United States we're
set forward an hour on March 81
In consequence the eclipse will be-
gin in Denver at Alp p. M, will be-
come total at 5:22 p. m, will pass
from totality at 5:24 p. m, and will
end at 6:27. The same variation in
the hours of the eclipse will prevail
throughout the length of the fifty
mile belt, extending from the south
eastern corner of Washington state
to the coast of Florida, in which the
total eclipse will be visible.
This change in hours will not af-
feet the astronomers, however, as
their clocks still are adjusted to
standard sun time.
Preparations for observing the
eclipse, the first total eclipse of the
sun visible in the United States since
1900, and the last until 1923, are
going ahead rapidly at the University
of Denver observatory, where asEon-
0mers from the Yerkes observatory
will make their observations. Prof.
Edwin B. Frost of the Yerkes OBJ
servatory at Green Bay, Wis, recently
notified Dean Herbert A. Howe. head
of the department of astronomy of the
University of Denver, that several
shipments of specially prepared in
struments are en- route. Professor
Frost is expected here before the end
of May to begin installing this equip
ment.
One of the principal pieces of ap-
paratus is a special spectroscope to
be attached to the 21-inch telescope
of the Denver observatory, with which
to photograph the suns corona. On
portunity to photograph the corona
is afforded only during a total eclipse.
and astronomers are greatly interest
ed in the result of this work, as af-
fording opportunity to study the COM
position of this great outer belt of
luminous gases which surrounds the
sun.
Photographs also will be taken of
the sky in the region of the sun in
search of any stray comet, and also
of the mythical planet Vulcan, which
some astronomers have asserted has
its orbit so close to the sun that it
can be seen only during an eclipse
The existence of such a planet is
doubted by most astronomers. how
ever.
Besides the staff from Yerkes oh
serVatory, other astronomers are
planning to work at the Denver OBJ
servatory. Among them are Prof. A..
V. Turner of the College of the City
of New York, Professor SchIessinger
of Allegheny observatory, Professor
Beifield of Dennison university. and
Professor Moore of the United States
bureau of mines.
Although astronomers consider
themselves fortunate in that the path
of the total eclipse includes the Der
yer observatory, with it's high-power
telescopes, they have experienced
much difficulty in obtaining special
apparatus because of the war.
AS precaution against unfavora-
BILE weather conditions at Denver on
June 8, the Yerkes observatory also
will have men stationed at Green
River, Wyo., and other observatories
will have observers at other vantage
points throughout the mountain
states.
Points at which the total eclipse
will be visible include South Bend
Wash; Chehalis, Wash; Hood River
Ore; Baker City, Ore; Pocatello
Idaho; Green River, Wyo.; Denver
Colo; Garden City, Kan; Dodge City