The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17
FLAGSTAFF ASTRONOMERS
| WILL VIEW SOLAR ECLIPSE
FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA

The Lowell observatory staff is
making preparations to leave the first
of next week for Enseneda, capitol
of Lower California, there to observe
the complete solar eclipse on Septem-
Der 10. Many instruments are being
taken. Other observatories all over
the world are sending men to various
points in or near Mexico for the same
purpose.
Earl C.. Slipher Of Lowell observa-
tory, accompanied by his wife, expects
to leave Flagstaff on Sunday, to drive
to Enseneda in their car. Stanley
Sykes and his son Guy will take a
truck-load of instruments and various
supplies. The others, including DR..
v. M. Slipher, chief of Lowell obser-
yatory staff; his daughter, Miss Mar
CA; DR.. C. O. Lampland of the staff
and Mrs. Lampland, and Paul Klipsch,
also a staff member, will go on the
train
It is likely tha M. /. Powers and
DIR. r. 0. Raymond will go with the
party and it is believed that Presi-
dent L. B. MeMullen Of the normal
school and Mrs. McMullen, who are.
now in southern California, will meet
them at destination.
The cars will go by way of Needles,
Barstow, San Bernardino, Riverside,
Santa Ana and San Diego, then down
the coast road to Tia Juana, Mexico,
and on, still following the coast. En-
seneda is about rs miles below the
international border. The observations
will be taken southeast of the capitol
city, probably on higher land about
ten miles back from the coast so as to
be out of the fog belt
The path of total eclipse visibility
is about a hundred miles wide, and
circular. 1t hits Pt. Conception, Calf,
then curves gently eastward in its
southwark course, hitting San Diego,
Enseneda, then, by this time the di-
rection being more easterly, crosses
Mexico and over Tampico in eastern
Mexico
The entire astronomical world will
be on the watch. The YerIxes observa-
tory people will view the eclipse from
Catalina islands. Lick observatory
will have men near Ensenada. Pro-
fessor A E. Douglas Of the Arizona
state university will probably take OBJ
servations from near Hermosillo. The
Mt. Wilson people will be somewhere
in Lower California and Dr. Miller and
assistants from the Sproul observa
tory, Swarthmore, Pa, will locate near
Torreon, Mex. Worthington, former
English observatory chief, has picked
a location somewhere Professor Luz
dendorf of Berlin, Germany, brother
of General Ludendorf, will be some
where in Central Mexico and it is be-
lieved his expedition is.being financed
by the Mexican government. DR..
Cogshall of University of Indiana and
DR.. Naylor of De Pauw university,
will locate near the Flagstaff expedi-
ton.
No observation of the sun can be
made except during total eclipse, and
the astronomers will have very short (
time to work after all the preparation
for their observations, the eclipse last
ing trifle less than three and half /
minutes.
Earl Slipher is thus making his
fourth long trip to view total eclipse
of the sun He went to Spain for
that purpose in 1905. In 1907 he was
a member of the expedition that DR..
Percival Lowell sent to Chill, South
to observe total eclipse of
the sun and also to observe Mars. In
1918 total eclipse took him to Kan
s3s.