Kyoto, Dec. 10.
Japanese astronomers will attempt io observe the total solar eclipse which will be visible in the southern Atlantic from Brazil to South Arica on October 1 next year, the Oriental Astronomical Association announced here today.
A group headed by Dr. Issei Yamamoto, President of the Associa~ tion, will proceed to Brazil where they will establish field observation posts at the mouth of the Amazon River and at Pernambuco at the eastern extremity of the Brazilian coast. In the neighbourhood of Pernambuco, the eclipse will last for 4 minutes and 53 seconds, a record in recent years.
Because of the probable absence of European scientists, this eclipse probably will be observed only by Japanese and American astronomers, it was said here. Dr, Yamamoto successfully observed a solar eclipse [in Peru in '1987—Domei,
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