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TOTAL ECLIPSE ON JANUARY TWENTY-FOURTH IS THE FIRST IN HUNDRED YEARSWASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 12— All(•traffic squads, attention! On thetwenty-fourth of January there will occur in the skies something that you probably will never see again- a total : eclipse of the sun, in some places, and r partial eclipse over the greater part of the United States. Caution till drivers to go slowly.I If you live in a belt 100 miles wide and 5,000 miles long and flung from northern Minnesota across northern Wisconsin and Michigan, over the Great Lakes to New York, Long Island, Connecticut and Rhode Island, parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts you will see the flaming sun blotted out on the morning of the twenty-fourth.I hose who live near this path across the country—a path that ends ut sunset near the north of Scotland will see the sun shadowed in part.Moon the CauseFor the firkt time in more than a 1: undri d * a, r - ;!t he moon will pas between th«iv.earth and the sun, throwing its shadow oti-buf sphere. It : the first total eeiipmVpf the sun visible in this section of the country since 1806.This eclipse will be total in Ha-loth, Buffalo, New York • City, New Haven and many other large eixCs in this part of the country. The partial eclipse will he very large, nearly total, in some of the largest cities in the United States, including Boston, Providence, Albany. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago. Even as far south as New Orleans, and as far west as St. Louis and Omaha, the partial eclipse will be large.The total eclipse in New York City wdll take place about IL10 a. m„ and the time of the greatest eclipse fox most of the cties in the East that keep Eastern standard time will varyI hut a few minutes from this time. Thd ;partial eclipse, will begin about ■T;gl.it .o'clock in the s.uue.' .‘Vetion, 'itui tip- eclipse will he owi;'.’ ahouu, Tail past- teti. ■/.Solar Corona SeenTh'* brighter stars and planets, and a I'd. 'the' p. i tit. i f ii I s. dar corona that !lie TLstromm;it is no anxious* to study, appear, This is a magnificent halo, of pearly light extending to a gn^rr distance from the sun, and different in shape and appearance ar'every eel ipse. It is neve! visihlm except during a total solar • , 1 ipse and can be studied only at that time.Those who find themselves within the path of total echpse should look for the shadow 1 . ‘bandof light end shade that flit over the landscape and buildings just before and after the total eclipse. Also, they should look out for the interesting phenomenon known as “Bailey’s Beads, which are seen as the thin, thread-like solar crescent breaks upinto heads of light as the total eclipse is about .pibegin, and which are seen a. .iiar just 'as it .'ends.Growing GasesFt r-Hf1 ' ).• f. • ab-o, .for the • scarlet . s.dar proniim m • - .iiiir.fr, g the tola! eclipse. whilt; h are flam/s. of/gb'uving,-gases of hydrogen and helium rising from the hidden surface of the moon to heights of thousands of miles and- visible beyond the (edgt of the moon in queer forms and shapes.The brighter stars and planets ap pear during the total ellipse and even a littf* before and after it. The threi planets, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter, should be set n in a close group some distance to the southwest of the sun.Although the event of this one day dwarfs all others by comparison in the January skies, it must be remembered that in midwinter the evening skies are at their best, the American Nature Association points out. There are more brilliant stars in view than at any other time of fhe year.fora war.. •lt;lt;11V . !V,colors lt;Over in W ill hav■ V/'-v* many people fail greatly the •ijd.ars lt;1 if I dr. Nearly everyone is' the plan, t .Mars is deeid-but How many know On-tim first-magnitude Mar..southeast this month mm a grind study in stai gfilors Take • constellation.-of Orion alone Tin:, is ftigtd. blue-white in coior.-:: perfect 'Miamond in the... sky:'' atm BeteUi use, in the same constellation is a de..p red a( ruby, rather, than a, diamond, of the' sky. There is Aidej batan, me “eve of the bull,” another! deep icd/spar in the Hyades, a liUe jto the northwest of Orion, in Taurus, j As an example of a perfectly white J statb'fhere is P, a Tauri, which is at J the tip of one of the horns of Taurus and directly south of Auriga and north of Orion, Procyort, in Canis Minor, the Lesser Hog, Is yellowish-: white; and Sirius, in Canis Major.j the Greater Dog, folic wing close on! the heels of Orion, is white in color.
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Marysville Evening Tribune
Marysville, Ohio, US
Mon, Jan 12, 1925
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