The Total Eclipse

Extract

A 16-Page pamphlet which has been prepared at Burnley Grammar School and published there at the price of 6d. under the title Guide to the Eclipse of June 29th, 1927, fits into the gap between the instructions of the professional astronomer and the advice of the professional journalist. Of the five sections—the cause, what to look for, hints to photographers, the eclipse in history, an expedition which “failed”—perhaps it is the third which is the most important; the last section, a quotation from Piazzi Smyth’s account of the terrestrial effects of totality when the sun itself is clouded, is a valuable antidote when meteorological friends have operated with their usual depression and we feel that the chance of a fine morning would hardly justify us in getting up early even if we lived on the central line.