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Show iLiPSEOFSOT" j IS PHOTOGRAPHED SCIENTISTS SUCCESSFULLY RECORD RE-CORD SUN AS IT PASSES THRU DARKNESS May Require Two Years to Collate Data Obtained By Astronomers As-tronomers Last Saturday Sa-turday Mortning. New York. That an important crop of scientific data reaped by astronomers as-tronomers and by students of physics, phy-sics, mathematics, chemistry, radio and of meteorology during the two scant minutes of darkness that marked mark-ed Saturday's total eclipse of the sun is predicted by scientists. Although it was said that it mav require as long as two years to collate col-late and analyze the enormous masses mas-ses of data collected, already several phenomena have been brought to the attention of the scientific world. Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell, director of the Leandor MpCormick observatory and chairman 6f the eclipse committee commit-tee of the American Astronomial society, so-ciety, has announced that the"shape of the corona was a great surprise." "It is two and a half years since the minimum sun spot period, but strange to say, the corona had altered alter-ed greatly from the typical form seen during the minimum;" he said. "A spike-shaped streamer was seen, a little to the right of the vertical stretched out nearly a solar diameter.". diame-ter.". Other astronomers were reported tc differ with Dr. Mitchell's conclusions, among them Professor Frederick Slo-cum, Slo-cum, director of the Van Vleck observatory, obser-vatory, where Dr. Mitchell made his observation. Neither he nor Dr. Ern est W. Brown of Yale is said to regard the shape of the corona as anything but normal. Another, who is reported to have found unlooked-for features in the eclipse, is Professor Henry Norris Russell of Princeton university. He is quoted to the effect that not only was the brilliancy of the corona unusual, un-usual, but also the sharpness with w'hich the "shadow-bands" were visible. visi-ble. The acute observation powers of mere laymen was attested to by reports re-ports that color process protographs, the first ever successfully taken of a total eclipse, showed a number of prominences, two in particular, at points where the hour hand of a watch would be when pointing at 4:30 and 7 o'clock. Although on Saturday astronomers as-tronomers reported that solar prominences prom-inences were very inconspicuous, numerous lay observers announced that they had seen them. I |