Show MOON WILL ML DARKEN FACE OF THE SUN TOMORROW Partia Partial Eclipse Will ill Be Visible Visible Vis Vis- ible in iii Salt L Lake ke During During During Dur Dur- ing Morning The first eclipse of the sun SUit visible in Salt Lake for several years will take place tomorrow morning between and About seventh one-seventh of the suns sun's surface will be ba covered by bythe bythe bythe the shadow of the moon at that time I viewing it from Salt alt L Lake LaIe ke This I eclipse will be total nowhere in the United States but some ome sections of North America will view it more clearly than the Rocky mountain re i-c- glen gion Unless weather conditions are favorable favorable fa ta- fa- fa it Is entirely probable that residents of Salt Lake will be unable to see the sun The same conditions prevailing tomorrow I i b V morning g as aa gA in fn in im tho urn tile prevailing I i b tomorrow V morning g as aa gA in fn in im tho urn tile past several days will hide the sun from view during the time of ot the eclipse eclipse At a. a m. m the tue moon will begin to nibble a little notch out of oC the sun The shadow will grow gradually grad grad- until It extends two-thirds two of the way from the bottom of ot the sun up to the right hand edge of ot the outer circle toward the top The eclipse will be Re greatest a at about 84 o'clock when it will begin to recede Total at the Canal The present eclipse will will willbe be total In Guadaloupe in the Azores in Colombia Colom Colom- bia bla on the isthmus of Panama and andover andover andover over a vast stretch of the South Pacific Pa Ia ocean The best way to see the phenomenon non to observe the eclipse will be through an ordinary piece of window glass smoked on one ono side over a candle or kerosene lamp One can look through a telescope by placing a dark glass over the eyepiece By shading the telescope with a cardboard fitted lilted around its tube an exact image of the tho eclipse will be projected upon another an an- other othet cardboard held behind the eyepiece eyepiece eye piece of oC the telescope Next Big Eclipse 1918 The Thin last total eclipse of ot the sun visible In this tItle region occurred June 29 29 1878 The last total eclipse vi i. i ble in any part of the United States was in 1900 There have been many partial eclipses since that time how how- ever The next total eclipse visible in this section of the United States will occur June 28 1918 The earth will become very dark a sort of ot twilight twilight twilight twi twi- light settling over the affected surface surface surface sur sur- face but It will not be so dark but that tha a watch face can be seen Solar eclipses have been rare in lii inthe I Ithe the United States for some time and the present one Is exciting much Interest Interest Interest In In- terest among astronomers Every I year there are at least two partial eclipses eclipsed s and sometimes as many as five which are visible in some parts of the world They are caused of I course by the fact that the moon traveling traveling trav tray eling cling in Its orbit around the earth sometimes gets Into such a position that it comes between the earth and I the sun The total eclipse of oC 1918 will be an important event In astronomical astronomical astro astro- I circles and one which will be i remembered for a lifetime i |