Realm of Science March 20th 1918
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Authors
Rigge, William F., S.J.
Issue Date
1918-03-20
Volume
IX
Issue
6
Type
Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Rigge Papers , The Realm of Science , Eclipse
Alternative Title
The Coming Total Eclipse of the Sun
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On next June 8th, a considerable section of the United States will enjoy a celestial spectacle for which astronomers often travel halfway round the earth. This will be a total eclipse of the sun, when the moon will appear to be placed centrally before it, hiding its brilliant disk completely, and thereby enabling us to see the sun's surroundings, and especially its magnificent corona, which the very abundance of its light always keeps from our view out of times of a total eclipse. The moon will look like an old-time cannon ball, an inky-black, perfectly round ball held up immovably and mysteriously in midair. Close about it will be a ring of effulgent light, interspersed with roseate tongues of flame like carbuncles, stretching out from which on all sides will be the glorious corona, like a halo of light about a saint's head, or like a bursting mass of fireworks fading gradually into invisibility.
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