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...late afternoon haze. Nevertheless eclipses offer such fine opportunities to scientists to study the composition and behavior of the sun's outer envelope and to photograph the magnificent flare of the corona, that expeditions were waiting for the shadow at both these meagre vantage points. Two astronomers-James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton-decided to go to the point of maximum duration in a 6,000-ton freighter. They planned to take snapshots with hand cameras, note the direction and length of the corona's streamers and take brightness measurements...