| Show I COAST VIEWS SOLAR ECLIPSE I ICle Observers Ob- Ob ObI Ob Observers Cle Clear r Ski Skies s Enable I servers to Study Phe Phe- of Heavens SA SAN SAN- FRANCISCO FR July 10 10 By Dy The Associated West Press Press West eru ern and southwestern a states peered through smoked glass gins Friday to ob serve sono the second eclipse of the sun In a a year The phenomenon was theoretically visible In n the states west of ot a line projected from Mon Mon- Montant Montane taut tane to but It diminished from totality tar far out In the Pacific ocean to 34 84 per cent pear near Los Loa An- An Angeles An Angeles geles and approximately 12 11 per percent percent cent In lit this vicinity became less north and east Scientists In the United States State paid little attention to the darken darkening ing of the sun known as a 0 solar eclipse The rho moon began to cover the suns sun's disc about 3 2 0 p m and left It shortly after alter Sp 5 p m The visible risible here was about 41 p m jm Army airplanes airplane at Honolulu oh- oh ohe ob oc e ved the eclipse from altitudes of and feet teet and cl scientists made special observations to o determine among other things thing the amount ot of heat energy nd 1 by the sun at various stages of the he eclipse Weather Veather conditions were excel excellent lent ent for tor observing the phenomenon although low h hanging clouds at atLo to forced observers observer Lo Los Angeles b to the Mt lIt Wilson a observatory tory Lory Tho The eclipse was war as easily visible In In this A slight haze hue made It it difficult to see at Sacramento and N R n Taylor meteorologist of the U S weather bureau there re- re reported re reported ported the was so 0 o light in the that hat It made little difference amount of ot light Ve Weather ther at the Lick observatory near rear San Jose Jone was perfect tor for ob observation The astronomers ers have exhausted data on eclipse and node mo-de no official observations be- be be believing loving lieving that the present eclipse Could not add anything to the already obtained or orlone lone any of the problems occa occa- occasioned by past darkening of the sun lull Note Cloudy Note Cloudy Note Cloudy skies skies prevented from viewing the partial eclipse here |
