St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-06-18
Minnesota Eyewtness
BY BRENDA UELAND


soth He is astronomer at the University and star himself for
discovering
the scientists prefer incorrgbe and mystics matter how
hnkngy accurate their mathematics When see Wem Lnyten
think Blakes aphosm He whose
shall star wilem Luyten has
great deal of light in his face
Well here he describes Eclipse you
daybreak Wednesday residents
will Natures grandest spectacle total
Of Creation rival IL tops
even the appearance OF the great Comet
light suddenly deadly
creeping the advancing slowly With the
fade menacng gloom takes
session of everything and an silence descends on the land
chilled He feels the of
overwhelming the world of "a darkness which
be felt The fun reduced to the tnnest crescent imaginable and
lines the horizon wildly shouettng the land
scape.
Then suddenly of upon
doom instant has
overwhelmed us and black night pervades all
midday" prophet
bowed their heads and prayed seeing in
eclipse manifestation of divine wrath Birds go to oos animals
and all the din and hustle of world subsidies be-
brings to all of how
frail insignificant is Man in this great universe
this darkness there flashes soft and svey light Of
Incompatible immaculate purity beyond all
human conceptions Of light and fire the sign manual OF dne mercy
the defeat While watching spbound
il Time not.
Suddenly light upon flash and the celestial
spendor refresh
ed spell is broken.
explanation eclipse simple
ing light Of its gets in between us and the sun and bos out
light day only happen at
but does not at moon because in making
their circuit in the sky the and moon travel in different paths
where these paths could the get direct
ly of the and eclipse.
a quarter a million miles while the
miles they almost exactly
the As total eclipse of the sun
last than few fleeing moments tx minutes at the
than 90 seconds
the United States and two minutes in Canada
you the eclipse will
exactly watch by for such astro
rarely off by than second
When the for the Twin Cities at 42s Central Standard
preliminary eclipse already be-
quite enough to delay sunrise by few seconds for the upper
tells the Eclipse that will June
right of the is missing
thirty minutes disc less
thin left At
house by the shining through the leaves OF tree standing sim
myriads little crescens win all
Then abruptly at
oNe Holt northeastern Nebraska With
speed quite
sygan darkness sbot OF fun snsh for 70 seconds
BY pnges Superior Of the
upper Michigan having travelled $50 miles
in
Half is dry again
the of Hudson Bay at STA and leaving the
North Then
briefly touches the southern tip of Green
just the southern edge of Iceland at 900 the Faero
Islands quarter Of an hour later and hits the coast of Norway
Sweden $50 the Iron
the Baltic minutes later disappearing
for three quarters an hour 1t meges south Of Bau crosses
Caspian northwestern Afghanstan Pskstan
finally gracefully lifts off the earth about est
near Jodhupr.
this Will be the first total eclipse Of the
a. 1903
first Tudor king regned in England The total eclipse Of
sunrise Duluth probably
eclipse history for total for the
northern part OF Manhattan siand and he Bronx
Where to go % Well
UP plane really shadow Of
directly advancing on you and where strange TO say you
win feel you II directly from above past
YOU at a speed Of No rocket
could keep with H.
This opportunity lifetime But too late and
wait until May 2os before another
total eclipse Sept
I "a