Show Total Eclipse of Sun Forecast i Light Will Be Blotted Out by Moon From Most of the United States New Haven flaven Conn For For a few minutes minutes min min- utes on the morning of January 24 next the moon will get between the earth and the sun and ond cut off all ail the light we get from that body bod This eclipse will be visible In the United States and ond It doubtless will be he seen b by more persons than ho have hoe e seen such an occurrence in the past according to Prof E. E W. W Brown of Yo Yale Ie university An eclipse is ms not a rare event one or two occur every year eur but this one Is notable for the fact that It occurs In a territory from which the light of ot the sun has not been wholly obscured by the moon within the memory of an any anyone anyone one living If we look over the records of past eclipses Professor Brown said an anthe and the predictions for future eclipses we soon see that In any one place there will be he a 0 total eclipse of the sun only once In ever every few hundred years cars The coming eclipse will produce darkness over o a 0 narrow band bond of territory which stretches from a u point somewhat west of Duluth and after crossing northern Michigan and Wisconsin Is ms seen In Connecticut and then passes posses out to sea The hour of the phenomenon Is ms between 0 9 and 30 eastern ston standard ord time There was an nn eclipse In 1 1919 visible In Ie Brazil and central West Vest Africa and another last September seen by the people of California and northern Mex Mex- i leo ico o. o Accurate Predictions The accuracy with which the time nn and position can be predicted for an eclipse Is Is' high hIg-h. Professor Brown wenton went wenton on to say SO The staff of the United States naval navai observatory at Washington Washing Washing- ton Is always alwo's at work worl calculating the positions of the heavenly bodies years In advance a vance in order that the predictions predictions predictions may be useful The northern and southern edges of the shadow I band can be laid down within a mile Hence when the almanac predicts pre I that the southern edge e will cross the upper end of Central park In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city It Is fairly certain that the shadow will not keep off the grass All this knowledge however Is ms not nol nota nola a product of the present generation g It has been heen slowly accumulating through many centuries Most of It Is due to the proof of the law of gravitation gravitation gravitation tion which was given by Isaac Iaac Newton Newton Newton New New- ton towar toward the en end of or the Seventeenth century I But we have to pay our homage to observers for tor their Industry much further back than thon that the professor sor continued More than 2500 years ago the were able ahle to predict predict pre pre- dict diet when eclipses would occur because because be be- cause couse they had hod learned leorne that there Is la laa Isa isa a long series of them repeated In a n little over eighteen years ears It Is remarkable remarkable remarkable re re- re- re that the they should have been able oble to get this knowledge knowledg-e because any eclipse does not cover quite the tile same part port of the earths earth's surface as OE the corresponding one which occurred 18 years before They must have kept records s over o at least a century per perhaps perhaps haps imps over o many mano centuries before the c cycle cle was discovered The eclipse will be seen by mangy mon millions of people In the map mop which has been Issued by the naval nO observatory observatory tory It Is seen that the southern boundary boundary boun dary of the band ban over which the sun will be e totally eclipsed Just covers Duluth Minn Mich Frankfort fort Mich London Ont Dunkirk Dunkirk Dun Dun- kirk N. N Y Y Pa and ond New NewYork NewYork York city north of Central park pork Well VeIl Inside the northern edge are Manis tique Mich Toronto Ont Auburn Hudson N. N Y New Bedford Mass while a 0 mile or two outside are Syracuse Syracuse Syra Syra- cuse N. N Y Springfield Mass and Providence R. R I. I Observers Busy The liThe observations which are to b bt mo made e by the observatories within the region of totality are ore not yet fully tully known Some of ot them will devote the brief two minutes during which the eclipse lasts to photographing that marvelous fringe of ot light which la is Is never seen except at a n total eclipse an and known as os the corona Others will wiil try to get accurate positions of the moon and also photo photographs of It so that Its size and shape shall be bettel better better bet bet- ter tel known Professor ProCessor Brown Is chairman of or a 0 committee appointed b by the American Astronomical society to Inform the public concerning this eclipse |