Astronomers Highly Pleased with Results of Observations London, Sept. 21.
The astronomers: had a splendid view of to-day's solar eclipse from Woolal,, near Broome, Australia, according to a despatch to "The Times" from Perth. The sky was cloudless and the observations were most successful.
The American expedition at Woolal, headed by Professor W. W. Campbell; director of Lick Observatory, saw a corona 40,000 miles wide, from which four long streamers of light shot forth, one extending 2,500,000 miles from the sun's centre, says a despatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Melbourne. The duration of the totality of the eclipse was four seconds shorter and began 15 seconds later than had been predicted.
The American astronomers are said to be highly pleased at the success of the photographic plate, taken with the purpose of verifying Einstein's theory of relativity, namely, the bending path of a ray of light 1n its passage through the sun's gravitational field The also expressed pleasure with the work of both the instruments and observers.
The Canadian and Australian astronomers occupied stations near by the Americans. All had made careful efforts to verify the Min-stein theory.
Christmas Island, where the British, Dutch and German expeditions were located, and Woolal, were considered the most favourable points for observation because of the sun's high altitude there, but an expedition under George F Dodwell, Government astronomer in South Australia, went to Cordillo Downs, in the Australian interior, whither it transported, on the backs of camels, more than 100 miles from the end of the railway line, a photographic telescope lent by the Pittsburgh Observatory. The observations made by this expedition also are said to have been most successful.—Reuter.
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