Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-13
CLOUDS INTERFERE
WITH ASTRONOMERS
STUDY OF ECLIPSE

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 11.-Disap-
pointing to science, but a thing of
wonder to ordinary folks; darkness
at midday, a colorful, magnificent,
but almost uncanny spectacle.
This, in brief, describes the total
eclipse of the sun witnessed in San
Diego and it's vicinity yesterday.
However, many of the scientists
found consolation in the results at
tanned by means of photographs
from airplanes that climbed above
the heavy bank of clouds that COW
cred the city.
Navy airmen, scattered over
wide area and flying at attitudes
varying from 1000 to 10000 feet,
succeeded in getting excellent
moving pictures not only of the CO.
roma, but also faint photographs of
the fleeing shadow that swept down
at the moment of totality.
A great ball of fire atop the sun
was sighted by Lieut.. Leland Webb
from an altitude of 10000 feet over
Point Hueneme. He reported that
at 1852 o'clock the brilliant shafts
of light from the corona, stretching
into the heavens for millions of
miles were suffused into soft glow
that resemb1ed pale moonlight,
etched with marvleous colors.
The only successful photographs
made from the earth are believed to-
be the ones made by Prof. James
Worthington. of London, and DR..
Alfred Burton, professor-emeritus of
astronomy in the Massachusetts In
stitute Of Technology.
Professor Worthington stated last
night that four of the negatives de-
veloped by him were almost perfect
and would take rank with the best
ever made during a solar eclipse.
Professor Worthington and DR..
Burton headed an expedition at an
observation station established north
of Santa Barbara. Weather condi-
tons there were more favorable
than any other spot on the Pacific
coast, according to the scientists.
The equipment used was a specially
constructed ceolostat.
ALL ATLANTA OBSERVES
PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF SUN
Exactly according to schedule, the
suns eclipse was pulled off with fine
effect Monday afternoon, all arrange
ments having been perfected some
| fifty years ago. At least the astron-
omers had known about it that long.
While it was in progress a little
girl called The Journal office to in
quire when it would be. She was
told that it was going on right that
minute, and without waiting for fur
fhnY~ CHI hnof II 70 fhn
backyard, leaving somebody else to
hang up the receiver.
There were other calls. People all
around wanted to know when it
would happen; if The Journal knew
it was in progress; when it would
be over, etc. At a moment when
printers and Office boys and report
ers and all were marveling over the
phenomenon through smoked glasses,
the phone rang mistakenly. The
caller wanted to tell The Journal to
be sure and look at it, it was so
beautiful.
Smoked glass was in high demand.
One man on the Forsyth viaduct
paused a moment to use his piece
of glass. AS he finished, stranger
politely asked to borrow it a mo-
ment. Another stranger borrowed
it, and another, and several more,
while the unfortunate owner of the
glass stood on one foot and then
the other and waited. Which fur
nishes good tip for Office boys when
the next eclipse like Mondays comes
around, in 2046, little more than q
hundred years from now. At dime
a peep, they can make money.
Beginning at 1886 o'clock, reaching
it's maximum at 3:43, and ending at
4.43, the eclipse furnished free
show which none but the bedridden
and the blind missed