The Republican., 1925-01-15
ECLIPSE OF sun One OF
NATURES GREAT SIGHTS
Millions of People to See That
Which Will Not Again Oc-
cur For Another Century

Millions of Americans will see, on
Saturday, January "a, something they
probably will never see again, a to-
tai eclipse of the sun in some places
and a partial eclipse over the greater
part of the United States. There
will not be another in more than a
century.
Those who live within a belt 100
miles wide and 5000 miles long rang
ing from northern Minnesota across
northern Wisconsin and Michigan, the
Great Lakes to New York, Long Is
land, Connecticut and Rhode Island,
parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and asSachusetts-will see the sun
blotted out on the morning of the
twenty-fourth. Those who live near
this path across the country-a path
that ends at sunset near the north of
Scotland-will see the sun shadowed
in part, the extent depending on how
HSdI Iley i've W InlS DelC.
In Duluth, Buffalo, New York City,
New Haven and many other large
cities the eclipse will be total. The
partial eclipse will be very large,
nearly total, in some of the largest
cities, including Boston, Providence,
Albany, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chi
cago and Washington. As far south
as New Orleans, and as far west as
st. Louis and Omaha, the partial
eclipse will be large.
In most of the central states the
sun will rise more or less eclipsed,
but from Lake Erie eastward, all of
the eclipse will take place after the
sun has risen.
In New York City the total eclipse
will take place about 81 a. M, and
the time of the greatest eclipse for
most of the cities in the east that
keep Eastern standard time will vary
but a few minutes from that. The
partial eclipse will begin about eight
O'Clock in the same section and the
eclipse will be over about half-past
ten.
When the eclipse becomes total the
brighter stars and planets appear and
also the beautiful solar corona that
the astronomer is so anxious to
study. This is a magnificent halo of
peary light extending to a great dis
tance from the sun and different in
shape and appearance at every
eclipse, says special bulletin of the
American Nature Association. 1t is
never visible except during a total
solar eclipse and can be studied only
at that time because its light is so
faint that the glare of sunlight in
the daytime hides it from view. 1t is
only when the moon obligingly comes
between the sun and earth and shuts
out the light of the sun that the CO.
roma shines forth in all its wonderful
beauty.
"All those who find themselves
within the path of the total eclipse
should look out for the shadow bands,
wavy bands of light and shade that
fit over the landscape and buildings
just before and after the total
eclipse" j" says the bulletin.
They should look out for the inter-
esting phenomenon known as "Baily's
Beads" which are seen as the thin,
thread-like solar crescent breaks up
into beads of light as the total eclipse
is about to begin and which are seen
again just as it ends.
Look also for the scarlet solar
prominences during the total eclipse
which are flames of glowing gases of
h. !rogen and helium rising from the
hidden surface of the moon to heights
of thousands of miles and visible be-
yond the edge of the moon in queer
forms and shapes.
"The brighter stars and planets ap-
pear during the total eclipse and even
a little before and after it. The three
planets, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter,
should be seen a close group some
distance to the southwest of the SUM-.
But above all else do not fail to make
the most of your opportunities to OBJ
serve the wonderful and mysterious
corona which can never be seen ex-
cept when the sun is totally eclipsed
and which very few people ever have
the good fortune to see.
Although the events of this one
day dwarf all others by comparison
in the January skies, it is in mid
winter that evening skies are at their
best" the American Nature Associa-
tion points out. "There are more bril-
liant stars in view than at any other
time of the year, sparkling more when
the denser air is frosty and cold. If
one could look at the stars outside of
the earth's atmosphere, he would find