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...might have traveled as far as the eclipse-causing moon (238,857 mi.) and back again. It was with much satisfaction that he radioed to Science Service in Washington that, as director of the U. S. expedition to witness last week's solar eclipse at Niuafou Island (8,000 mi. from Washington) he had added 93.9 sec. more to his totality total...
...Mitchell was satisfied but not enthusiastic with what he had seen when the moon's shadow fell upon Niuafou. He reported that the performance was only what he expected. When, however, his 112 photographs of the phenomenon were developed, Dr. Mitchell pronounced the expedition's success "unequaled in astronomical annals." Spectroscopic analyses of the incandescent gases which surround the sun showed a new wavelength which scientists had never known before. The visible spectrum ranges from 8,000 to 4,000 angstrom units.* Dr. Mitchell's wavelength was 6,770 angstrom units. The camera recorded what the astronomer...
...Naval Observatory, set out to keep its 93-sec. engagement. The totality band of this year's eclipse spread across the southern Pacific from Australia to the tip of South America. On its way it crossed only two tiny points of land: Nurakita, an inaccessible island, and Niuafou in the Tonga group, home of 1,500 Polynesian natives. Because it stands so proudly high in a treacherous sea, ships can not approach Niuafou. Mail is sent to shore in tin cans. Hence the island is familiarly called Tin Can Island. Astronomers had no choice. To see the eclipse they...
Next stop for astronomers seeking total solar eclipses: "Tin Can Island" on Oct. 21. This island, Niuafou, one of the Tonga group, is so called because mail is thrown from passing steamers in tin cans which native swimmers gather up. Since "Tin Can Island" is located in the South Pacific volcano belt near Fiji and Samoa, the astronomers may expect their instruments to be shaken by temblors which jostle the island almost daily...
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