Word: ensenada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Santa Catalina and San Clemente islands, off the coast near Los Angeles, and at San Diego, Ensenada, Mexico and other Lower California posts, the sky was obscured by heavy clouds practically throughout the eclipse. At Los Angeles the clouds parted just long enough for the watching thousands to see a thin crescent of shadow on the disk in the early phase. At Mexico City the clouds were more polite, and a good view was obtained, though as the Mexican capital was just outside the belt of totality, with an obscuration of 99.4%, none of the major expeditions had stationed themselves...
...West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them, San Clemente, is exactly on the center line, with practically the total possible duration. In Mexico other advantageous points for viewing the eclipse are at Ensenada (in Lower California), Hermosillo (in Sonora), Cuencamé (in Durango), Berrendo (in San Luis Potosi). In other parts of the U. S. the eclipse will have varying degrees of totality?99% at Los Angeles, 71% at Denver, 60% at St. Louis, 52% at Chicago, 64% at Atlanta, 46% at New York...
...Lick Observatory, under its Director, Dr. W. W. Campbell, will observe the eclipse from the main observatory and from a station at Ensenada, Lower California...