Show I I I I I I I TOTAL ECLIPSE CUPS OF MOON TO B BE SN SlEN IN SALT SULT LAKE SOON Astronomical Spectacle to JJ Witnessed Here November November November No- No vember 27 IA A According to lo tho the astronomical a calculations lations lat om residents of Salt SnIt Lake City Cit and in fact of the entire country Trill ill witness a total eclipse of tho the moon on November 27 j It is is said that the phenomena phe phe- Domena will be first visible to this this' locality lo Jo- calif about ten minutes after midnight midnight mid mid- night and IR is expected to continue continuo in ina a state of eclipse for from an hour an ann and anda a n half to two hours Lunar eclipses are arc caused b by tho passage of the moon noon into tho time earths earth's shadow shado- and while whilo not as frequent as us solar eclipses the ratio being being be be- ing ins about three to two to as far as tho the ordinary observer who must COD content tent himself with the naked eye eyo yo is concerned con con- corned it would appear otherwise as asit asit asit it i is only in localities that the theolar solar folar eclipse o is generally visible all things favorable from about half hal tho the earth card Even under tinder the most favorable conditions con cou tho the solar eclipse never lasts longer as a a. total eclipse than about eight minutes and aDd this is only in in some somo parts of tie the equator while the moon mOOD in total eclipse will last about two hours and two hours more from the time tho the cd edge c of the tho moon moon first passes parses into the shadow of tho earth until it passes out Still Visible in Eclipse Except in times of storms th the tho moon is still visible while whilo in total eclipse showing howin a sort of dull copper colored Ji light ht which is said by astronomers to tobe tobo tobe be bo sunlight ht deflected around the I earth into its own shadow by the tho re refraction refraction re- re fraction of the tho earths earth's atmosphere The partial eclipse of the moon is much more frequent than tho the total Astronomers As As- say that the partial eclipse is caused by br t the c moon passing either cither to tho north or south of tho the shadow thrown b by the earth without going directly through it it Tho average number of f eclipses per year ear is about four two solar an and two lunar It is said that the tho smallest number which may occur is two to and ana in this instance both arc are solar while tho the largest number ever er known to tako take place within a n year was controls tho sp en While the moon tides of the tho ocean it is said that an eclipse has no DO effect whatever on tn them The solar eclipse is is' is- is much more valuable val yal- than tho the lunar from a 1 scientific point of view vie in fact wore it not cot forthe for forthe forthe the opportunities given astronomers to stud study tho the surface and aDd constitution of tho the sun in times of partial or total eclipse when the thc sun suns sun's a brilliancy is gre greatly less lessened ned it is probable that com coin ely parati little would bo be known n about the plant which furnishes us with li light ht and und heat Historical Observations It is said that the thc present l knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge ede of the s sun un was nearly all gained Jaine what is b by observations made during called the tho most remarkable series of I eclipses in in history bistor between aud 1871 Most lost of the thc phenomena ob oh- observed I Iere served ere durin during this period was more plainly y sibl in in Spain than in in any any f other part pait of the world Quo Ono Of the most peculiar features of the lunar I eclipse is is the tho fact that to the naked milc eye ere the tho line of tho the earths earth's 5 shadow o as I tho moon passes pa into it is is plainly vis is visible ible le and aDd sharply defined lilt hut whoa a telescope is is is' use used instead of of growing n I I plainer this line linc fades into a hazy blur I In the ancient times eclipses were verc used I to marlc mark events The date of the tho Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian era is said ai to have havo been determined deter deter- I mined by a it lunar eclipse clipse on the night ht before Herod died The rhe word eclipse from the Greek taken literally lit I crall is a medical t term rm meaning faint I or swoon I |