At frat unheralded, " total eclipse of the moon began' at 11169 pam fast Wednesday, At that time the moon entered. the penumbra, which, accord ing to the "Eneyelopmdia Britannica,"
searcely noticeable without. direct photometric determination until the beginning of the total phase.
The "moon rode high and. bright in the heavens that night, and. the first slight tinges of darkness on the face occurred about midnight. Then the eclipse wag noticed by boatmen on the Soochow creek and a volley of crackers went off to chase away "the dragon devouring the moon."
From the penumbra stage, ut 12.28.
the moon entered the umbra roughed the middle at, 29.5
Toft the umbra at The beginning of the eclipse was visible generally in the northeast par:
the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Eastern Asia, the Indian part of the Pacifte Ocean. generally in the eastern part of the Allantle Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa the Indian Ocean, Australia, with the part Ocean.
Alaska, and the Arctic
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