The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-29
READY
To S|VAP SUNS
CORONA
Director of Lowe Observatory
Tells Of Preparation to View
Strange Sight.
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN,

by EDGAH LUClEN LARhANs
Director Lowe Astronomical Observatory.
written especially for and copyrighted.
1928. by Cosmopolitan News Service.)
ECHO MOUNTAIN, CAL, Aug.
29.-Never before since man APP
peared on our earth. 100000 years
ago, has there been any strange
activity comparable to the present
supreme work Of q science. This IL
made possible because no longer
are scientific men burned at the
stake. The great observatories, also
the physical, spectrosoopic and opti-
cal laboratories Of the world are
now scenes OF the most intense ami.
nation.
Instruments so refined that they
measure the diameter Of a spiders
thread and photograph delicate
Fraunhofer lines in the light of our
own and thousands of other suns,
are packed and on their way to
Ell Pueblo Nuestra Sonora la Reina
de Los Angeles, a port in Mexico
and all to see, measure, photograph
and analyze by spectroscope meas
ure the light by the worlds most
delicate meters and test by sensitive
polariscopes the supernatural In
beauty, the corona Of the sun.
Scientists All AgOg.
It Is the hope to catch on highly
sensitive rapid plates the outlying
streamers and fine filaments of the
suns crown of glory-and the long.
est time for strenuous, delicate and
trained work is three minutes, thir.
ty-four seconds. If the immortal
masters, Kepler, Calico, Newton,
Herschel and their kind, could now
enter science laboratory and see
the exciting work on instruments CO
be set up on stone piers on the cen.
trail line Of totally, they would be
surprised.
A few years ago it was published
to all astronomers that total
eclipse of the sun would be known
by the observation Of the light
along a narrow strip Of los miles
wide from near Japan to near Cuba
Then they began to compute exact
places to mount instruments. The
number to be set up in the belt II
totality will be far greater than
ever before.
The Ephemerides Of England
first published in 1850, France
and other nations Of Europe and
our own magnificent Ephemeris,
announced that when the dial OF
the worlds standard clock in Green
witch reads seven hours cixteen and
nine-tenths minutes on September
10, 1928, the shadow of the moon
projected by the sun will fall OH
the Pacific Ocean.
Cameras to Be Ready,
It will then move with great
speed eastward and toward the
south. What the world Of science
was at once interested In was when
and where the shadow would fall
on" land in southern California and
northern Mexico. However, the
time cameras must be set on con.
crete or stone piers and pointed
without excessively sensitive plates
to the exact spot where the edge of
the moon will cut off the first rays
OF, sunlight. An astronomer from
London or Moscow cannot afford %
be behind time, so the times of the
first contact, totally and last con.
tact all have been calculated To
seconds.
am going to Ensenada, Mexico
to be in the central line.
On no account should the sun b.,
viewed without dark glasses, &c,
two squares Of glass, smoke one
paste thin strips OF cards around Il
and fix the other over Il to pro
tect the thin film OF carbon, Smoke
with varying intenaitv