Evening star., 1932-05-08
SCIENTISTS READY
TO VIEW ECLIPSE
Last Phenomenon of Kind
Until 1870 to Be Visible
on August 81.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 7-An arrow
straight black path of a total eclipse
Of the sun, 100 miles wide, viii come
down from the North Pole to cross
New England at $50 pm. August 81.
1t will strike directly through one
OF the Nations great vacation lands at
the height of the season. For l minute
and 80 seconds it will last, provided the
weather is clear. Those who wish to
take the gambling chance on this spec
tacle, the last of its kind in the United
States until 1870, can obtain front
seats" by matching the astronomers.
Among the Fairgrounds of Maine,
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire and
Vermont, where the total eclipse will
pass, astronomers began a year ago a
quiet location of sites Now they are
all selected and published
Russia Sends Expedition.
The astronomical advice is free-the
scientists wanting only their own reSer-
vations, which were made long ago for
a score or more of expeditions from
both New and Old Worlds. Even Soviet
Russia is sending an official expedition
AS this is written the only missing per-
son at the party is Uncle Sam. No ap-
preparation has been reported yet to
permit the United States Naval Observ-
atory to do its own home eclipse.
Unofficialy the United States will
have droves of astronomers from many
private obSerVatorieS, some of them in
planes
This eclipse begins west of the North
Pole early August 81 and sweeps almost
straight southwark. It's course is down
Hudson BAY, between Quebec and
Montreal.
The center line-that is where the
astronomers have made reservations
crosses the st. Lawrence River 10 miles
east of Sorel, three miles east of Island
Pond, VT, one and half miles east of
the summit of Mount Washington, N
H, two miles west of Fryeburg, Me,
and strikes the coast at Cape Porpoise,
two miles east of Kennybunk Port, Me.
Its western edge crosses the upper
line of Lake Champlain, passes near
st. Alhans, Vt; Montpelier, vt; Con-
cord, ~ H; Salem, Mass, and Chat
ham, Mass, on Cape Cod.
Time of Totality Varies.
The time of totality varies on the
center line from l minute AZ seconds
near the st. Lawrence River, to l
minute and 38 seconds at the Maine
coast. Twenty-Five miles on either side
of the center it will last a minute and
q little more than 35 seconds, 40 miles
from the center it will last just over a
minute.
The chance for fair weather at $3.50
pm on August 81 is about SIS per cent,
according ID records of several years.
1t is best in Canada and Maine inland,
both of which figure about 60 per cent.
Locations within five miles of the
eclipse center published by the astron-
oplers are:
Maine-Kepnebunk, Cape Porpoise,
Kennebunk Port, Kennebunk Beach,
Biddeford Pool, Biddeford, Saco, Linz
erick, Cornish, Kezar Falls. West Bald
win, Hiram, East Broomfield, Fryeburg.
New Hampshire-Center Conw way,
Conway, North Conway perhaps a
dozen astronomical expeditions will
center around these Conways), South
Chatham, Kearsarge, Intervale, jack
son, Mount Washington, Randolph JEFF
ferson Highlands, Jefferson, Lancaster.
Groveton Stratford, North Stratford.
Vermont--Bloomfield Island Pom d,
Morgan Center, Morgan, Derby, Derby
Line.
Five miles from the center shortens
the duration of the eclipse only about
half a second.
Past Cape Cod the eclipse curves out
to sea and finally ends at sunset in
the region of the Atlantic Ocean dol
drums half way across to Africa.