Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-04-12 | Page 5 | Earth's Shadow to Blot Moon in Total Eclipse

Earths Earth's IS Shadow to Blot Moon in Total Eclipse NEW V YORK April 12 UP UP- UP The moon the earth and the sun team up Tuesday night for or the presentation of one of tho the best heavenly shows in years The moon will be the star performer performer per per- former Cormer aided by earth and sun The show starts exactly at pm p.m. EST when the shadow of the earth from the suns sun's rays will start moving across the face of the moon At first it will be just justa a wee bite off the edge of the moon Gradually the moons moon's full face will be overshadowed and at 1028 pm p.m. the eclipse will be total The big climax or totality of the act will run for an hour and 28 minutes At 1154 pm p.m. the earths earth's shadow will begin to toI I withdraw and at am a.m. Wednesday the big show will be beall beall beall all over oyer Gordon Atwater curator of the Hayden planetarium said that the eclipse will be one of the best astronomical shows in years The moon when eclipsed will be in inthe inthe inthe the southeast sky a position and time of the night that man himself himself himself him him- self could not have better planned even if he could hang the moon in one spot Atwater said The period of total eclipse is I. unusually long Atwater said The totality will wUl be visible in inmost inmost 1 most all parts of the United States For or those persons who wont won't care careo to o make their own personal observations observations observations some eastern television stations plan to televise the eclipse Amateur observers are being asked to watch for meteor flashes across the darkened face of the I moon Because of the tho long period of totality astronomers believe that many such meteor flashes may be seen Tuesday nights night's eclipse is la the first of 1949 the second eclipse of the tho moon coming on Oct 6