Deseret Evening News | 1892-05-04 | Page 3 | Total Felloes of the Sun

Tout Irllptr of tho Mm. Krery )car thero muUbe two ecl(pri t f tho lii, nit 1 thero may lw five. TI100 are jiartlr.t eclipses, bowncr txcrpt in the rompirs Ay rare cam in which Ilia moon iiassc nmrl) tiutrally our the Min's tlUk c d proiluees a total oh- ura tloti of his 1 ht. blnce tho itn t utiun of tho tpHMroBcope, in IMiO, tluro hiJ leu Imrtly n scctoot total rcllpMX, and n numlier of thiwuould nut lw oliw m I liecnusothv twit of totality Ml at the ivirlh idar regions or upon the o- rani. The Ult of totillt) ia narrow strip no er more than 170 miles wide wlirre the point of tlm moou'sshadiw falls up n the earth. Total ccliiwes rarely occur, then fore, at tho same point of tin rurtlt. At Loudon, for example, there ha Im n uo total eclipse since the jear 11 10, ex etptthatof ltll, and there will be none during tho next rentur). Professor J2 H. Holdeti In Century.