Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1916 — Mellville Wishard Gives Information of Eclipse. [ARTICLE]

Mellville Wishard Gives Information of Eclipse.

Chicago, 111., Feb. 1, 1916. Editors Republican, Dear Sirs: In reading your paper of even date I notice you refer to a total eclipse of the sun Thursday morning, Feb. 3. You seem to indicate that the eclipse will be total in Rensselaer, but it will be partial there only. Nowhere in the U. S. will it be total for the line of totality begins in the Pacific ocean, moves east, crossing the northwest part of South America and goes nearly across the Atlantic ocean in a northeasterly direction toward England. The greatest length of totality will be only 2 minutes and 86 seconds, so it would be totally dark only a short time. So the eclipse occurs in these central states as a partial eclipse from about 9 a. m. to 11 a. m., as near as I can figure’it. I am not able to tell the Amount of the sun covered by the nfoon here but it may be from a third to a half. The above facts I gather from the Nautical Almanac, published by the naval observatory at Washington, D. C., of which I have a copy. Some of your readers may be interested in watching the two planets of Venus and Jupiter in the western sky just after sundown. The lower one is Venus and on Feb. 13 and 14 will pass above Jupiter, so that on those two evenings they will appear very close together. This fact also is shown in the Nautical Almanac and many others are there if one Is interested in looking them up. Hoping that this little explanation will tell why you will not be plunged into total darkness next Thursday morning, I am, '

MELVILLE B. WISHARD,

3611 N. Tripp Ave., Chicago.