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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1918)
- - THE BEE: 'dMAHA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1918. ' " "' J stars, setting on toe lata at Head of Iron Workers Is Celestial Spectacle for Which Astronomers 11:55 p. m. and 1:46 a m. respectively. The moon is in conjunction with Venus on the 5th, with Saturn on the 12th, and with Mars on the lt6h. Records Broken at Navy Recruiting Station Here One hundred and ninety-four men enlisted in the navy at the Omaha recruiting station Tuesday. This figure sets a new record for the local station. The previous high mark for one dav was 156 reenr'ts. Given Sixty-Day Sentence W. K. Chase, 2756 South Twelfth street, president of the loral union of iron workers, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a charge of drunken ness in . police court Thursday morn ing. Chase was arrested Wednesday night when complaint . was made at police headquarters tliat he was at tempting to sell an automobile be longing to the union. - - Waited 18 Years Occurs When Sun Goes Into Eclipse Glorlonft Orb of Day Will Be Blotted Out for One or Two Minutes at Black Ball or Moon Pastes Before It "' ' mm. . -i in ' .ii - 1 1 1 iimnsr Have I IS 5 II I II I It I II I II I 14 I 14 I 14! I 14 I 4 I IS I It I II I t I l I 17 1.26 1.9S I. II I. II 1.17 1.17 1.17 1.17 I. IS I. II H-Sun. F.Q. 17-Mon. ll-Tu.. l.Wd. JO-Thtt. ai-m 1 2I-St 21-Sun. l.ll.ll24-Mon. r.M I. IS I. II 1.11 l.ts 1.17 1.17 J.J7 I. It t.M I.I M t.ll 1.37 I.I 1. till. Ill 26-Tu. 24-Wed, 27-Thu. 31-m 2I-It. it-Bun. 1-Mon L.Q. 1-Tu. Eighteen years ago Father Rigge, as special representative of The Bee, went to Washington, Ga., to observe a total eclipse of the sun. When asked if he would go to Colorado with other eminent acientisti to witness the eclipse of the sun, which will be total there Saturday, June 8, Father Rigge said: "No, I will remain here for the reason that I have not the equipment necessary for h highly specialized work that is to be done now. Frost says that with a spectro scope set 200 miles from the line of totality good results can be obtained. - - ...... . "I have a spectroscope of twice that distance, and with it I hope to see the corona. . If there is a rain the nieht before and high barometer, atmospheric conditions will be ideal ana i can oo goon wo nwc The following is special article, ony the eclpse, prepared by ratner Kigge for Omaha readers: By WILLIAM F. RIGGE. On June 8 the United States will enjoy-a celestial, spectacle for which ; it has been waiting, for 18 years, and to see which astronomers often travel hall way around the'arth. This is a total eclipse of the sun, when for the brief space of one or two miuutes the glorious orb of day will be, as it were, blotted out of the sky, and will reveal ' tof us the secrets of its immediate en vironment From behind the black ball of the , moon, which will place itself centrally before the sun, there will appear a ring of pearly light of unwonted splendor, in which . there will be tongues of flames of scarlet, and out side and beyond which there will be the sun's corona, two opposite sets of streamers of light emanating appar ently and curving away from the sun's, poles, like lines of iron filings near a magnet, and uniting at the sides into broad wings which fade away gradu ally like auroral streamers to two or three times the sun's diameter. - i ;;y Worth Long Journey. The beauty and rarity of the sight are well worth a long journey to see. And its scientific value is not less important, for as the body of the sun is hidden from our view behind the ntoon, astronomers have the rare opportunity of seeing and photo graphing the sun's surroundings, which its intense glare always' hides . from our view out of times of a total eclipse. A study of these surround ings may teach us much about the nature of the sun, and the nature of the stars, for the sun is but a star like the millions that adorn our nighty skies, and the stars are all suns like our own shorn of their , great brilliancy only by their stupendous diitarjces. ' ' A . Thfs glorious sight of the , sun totally eclipsed will be visible only over a narrow belt about 70 miles wide, which will run serosa the long est path we could trace for it in the United States, from the state of Washington to that of Florida. And its duration will be only from two to one minute or less. Caused By Moon. An eclipse of the sun is caused by tt moon's passing before it This 1 -SOrJrJ'Tly and,, it generally Sv requires an hour fronv the moment r hen the moon just begins to obscure t.e tun's disk until it covers it com p'ately, and it takes another hour for t' e moon to clear the sua again, while t! e period, of totality cannot last more f in eight minutes and is generally Lis than two. ; ' ' While the exact moment the moon t2ini to indent the inn Is' of, great i -portance to astronomers in," help i.'X them to correct possible errors in their tables, it is no less so to know the precise point on the sun's tf"k where the . moon will begin to encroach upon it For this purpose we mark off the. sun's circumference in degrees like a circle, and use either the general system common to all the world, of the cardinal points N. S. E. W., or the local ones of T. B. R. L, top, bottom, right, left Both of thfse, together with the times are shown in figure 1, which like figures in!iuM.t I ; I ' ' f j1 XlfW i ..'',.. . ' rigw s. . . ' -n,--, . ... I I llwtr- . i r- 1 , . . I 13 ll24il!M!!-Thu.' 10 4S S.I4 Mldn " "'" ' ' " " ' ' r'T'SJ ' -Ll ' 2il I II 1.24ll.llil4-m U S.MIlt H " 1 1 II 1.2411. Illll-Sat. ' 1J.46 S.I7 1I III rr 1.44 1.41 1. 41 1.42 1.41 1. 41 T.41 I.S8 t.at 10. OS 10.41' 11.14 11.41 Mldn It 12 It 42 1 IS T.t S.tO s.ot S.4I 10.14 11.17 Mldn IS Si 1 It S 11 S OS S l! 4 10 I 40 S 10 T to I 13 10 II 11 41 It. IT t.Ot I. it MOON'S PHASES, litit quarter on th. lit, 11:10 p. m. ' Nw moon on tn Ith, 1:01 p. m. Flrat Quarter on th ISth, 1:11 a. m. run moon on th I4th, l:3 m. 2 and A, is taken from the writer's article in Popular Astronomy for last November.' The large 5 in the upper border of figure 1 means 5 o'clock summer central time, which we keep in Omaha.' The 40 and 50 to the left of the 5, and the 10, 20, 30, 40, to the right of it mean the minutes before and after, so that by estimating the distance of a olace from these 10-min- ute lines, the time of the beginning of the ecliose mav be found to the near est minute. The dotted lines marked from N60W to S70W, W meaning due west, indicate the position angles, counted from the sun s north or south point, of the point of first contact at which the moon will first indent the sun's disk. The dashed lines B60R to B30R show the position angles of the same ooint of first contact as counted from the bottom or lowest point of sun towards the right Path of Totality, r i FiBure 2 contains the data pertain ing to the greatest magnitude attained by the eclipse. The large 6 on top of the map and) near its left,' means 6 o'clock, central time, and the 10 to the right of the 6, the 20, 30, 40 on the right border mean the minutes after 6 o'clock. The three close parallel curves denote the ipath of totality. The numbers from 120 to 50 along its southern border indicate the seconds that the total phase will last. The dotted lines 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, show the sun's altitude at the time. The curvet marked 90, 80, 70, 60, on either side of the central line, show the per centages of the obscuration. Figure 4 pertains to the end of the eclipse. The full lines marked 1020, 30, 40. on the left border of the map mean the minutes after 7 . o'clock, central time. The dotted curves S60E E show the position angles of 'the point of last contact as measured from the sun's south point towards the east. The dashed curves T80L card. We may even' by, this simple method see spots on the sun and then are present Ana all the round spots of light that we see on the ground under a tree, which are real images of the sun, will, during the eclipse, snow the sun i apparent shape at the moment PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON. Besides the great eclipse of the sun on the 8th. we shall be favored also with a small eclipse of the moon. This will take place on the morning of June 24. The magnitude will only be 13 per cent, as Figure 6 will . show. Here N. S. E.' W. are the cardinal points on the moon, and T. B. L. R. mean top, bottom, left right The moon will begin to touch the earth's shadow at the point F at 4:46 a. m., and leave it at D at 6:10. The eclipse will be greatest at 5:28. The moon will set at 5:59, five minutes after the nun rises. The sun reaches its highest north T20L show the position angles meas ured from the top or uppermost point of the tun towards the left. To the east of the curve marked "Eclipse endt at sunset" the sun will set before the eclipse is over. And finally,. the turves marked "10, 9, 8, 7, on the up per border, indicate the full hours of the central times of sunset ? Begins st 5:19. From a study of these four figures we gather the circumstances of the eclipse , as it will appear to us in Omaha. The eclipse will begin at 5:19 p. m. or more accurately, at 5 h. 18 m, 53,16 !s at the Creighton ob servatory, ft a point on the sun N 89 degrees W, or almost due west, and B 37, degrees R, 37 degrees from the bbttom-of the sun towards the right. The middle of the eclipse will take place at 6:25 and the magnitude will be 88 per cent. The eclipse will end at 7:25, more precisely at 7 h. 24 m. 48.42 t. at S. 74 degrees E or T. 55 degrees L. The sun will set at 8:52. Figure 5 shows the appearance of the sun whea most eclipsed. The moon will first indent the sun at the point j D, and leave it finally at F. ' ; The best way to observe the eclipse j will be to project the sun's image on a white card held beyond the eye- piece of a telescope. If we have so telescope at our . disposal we may t punch a small hole in a piece of paste-' board, hold this to the sun and then ; catch the image it makes on a white , at the summer solstice on the 2st at 1 i i. m. Then astronomical summer be-! ins and the day is longest, 15 hours 4 minutes, and the night shortest, 8 hours 56 minutes. The days through out the whole month vary less than a quarter of an hour in length, v Jupiter is in conjunction with the sun on the 15th. It will be very near the eclipsed sun on the 8th. Venus is morning star- rising on the 15th at 3:51 a. m. Saturn and Mars are eve- Save Food Uncle SamNeefls It Save Money You Will Need It OPEN AN ACCOUNT IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Deposits payable on demands-No notice required " of intention to withdraw funds. Accounts Opened With ff S Mote 3 interest paid on balances 3 . V ' - THE United States National Bank OF OMAHA. 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