Alaskans Will View Dramatic Event
Of Total Eclipse of Sun This Week
On the morning of Saturday,
July 20, a solar eclipse will occur
and be visible to everyone in Alas
ka. For 100 seconds the sky will
be dark as the moon passes in
front of the sun.
What will you do when the
eclipse occurs? Most Alaskans will
look at it, try to take pictures of
it, or, perhaps, wonder just what
is they are seeing.
Scientists from the University of
Alaska’s Geophysical Institute
warn observers not to look direct
ly into the sun. The glare of sun
light will prevent good observa
tions and will damage the eyes.
Instead, look at the eclipse through
a piece of heavily smoked glass
or a piece of completely exposed
and developed film.
Sunglasses do not provide ade
quate protection. If you cannot ob
tain either smoked glass or ex
posed film, make a simple obser
vational aid by poking a tiny hole
through a piece of heavy card
board and look through it.
Taking pictures of the eclipse
will not be easy, because of the
varying intensity of light during
the different phases of the eclipse.
Professional photographers suggest
using a verichrome film with an
exposure of 1/50 second at f/8.
For motion pictures, use a 6 inch
focal length lens for 16mm cam
eras and shoot at f/4.
Alaskans will have the best
seats in the house for this show.
Although the sun will be partially
eclipsed to observers in all parts
of the U S., the total eclipse will
be seen in only two states: Alaska
and Maine. It will also be visible
in parts of Canada.
The moon’s shadow will race
across the world at about 2,000
miles per hour. It will start near
northern Japan, move across Alas
ka to the southern tip of Hud
son Bay, and on across Maine
and off into the North Atlantic.
Depending on the observer’s lo
cation in Alaska, he will see a
total or nearly total eclipse be
tween 9:50 and 10:15 a.m. The
path of totality can be intercepted
by auto travelers at Northway on
the Alaska Highway (Route 2),
at Slana on the Glenn Highway,
and at Sourdough on the Richard
son Highway (Route 4b Talkeetna
on the railroad and Gulkana on
the Richardson are expected to be
g<xxl viewing sites with little
cloud-cover expected. Also within
the path of totality are Bethel,
Aniak, Curry, Paxson, North way,
Ft. Selkirk, and Snag.
University of Alaska scientists
suggest that observers watch for
the following events:
Just before the brilliance of
the sun is covered — and again
just as the sun reappears —
Baily’s Beads may be seen. This
is a thin edge of brightness around
the moon which looks like a string
of glowing beads. This effect is
caused by light shining through the
valleys and between the moun
tains along the edge of the moon.
These shapes break up the light
into a series of glowing bead-like
dots.
During the eclipse solar promi
nece may be visible. These are
sheets of fiery gases that shoot up
in the atmosphere of the sun. The
shining gases are brilliant red and
thousands of miles thick. They
move at fantastic speeds — some
times 500,000 miles in half an
hour.
You may see a silvery halo: The
corona of the sun. This outer at
mosphere of the sun shows up
dramatically while the glowing sun
is darkened by an eclipse.
While the sun is partially hid
den, some stars and planets may
appear in the darkened sky. There
may be a sudden coolness as the
temperature and humidity sudden
ly drop.
When the eclipse ends, the shad
ow cone may be visible. This is
the great mass of air that gets no
direct sunlight during the eclipse.
The cone will appear to rise from
the earth and dramatically move
up and away, gliding swiftly over
head from north to south.
When the sun shines through
small openings, such as between
the leaves of trees, the ground will
be dotted with small crescents.
Each will be formed exactly like
the patriallv-eclipsed sun, but in
verted. This effect is similar to
that caused by a pin-hole camera.
To see these images clearly, place
a sheet on the ground under a tree
where the images will be protected
on it.
Another interesting phenome
non of the eclipse is the appearance
of shadow bands — waves of shim
mering light and shade that run
parallel to the visible edge of the
sun. These narrow bands move
radily, and it may be necessary to
place a sheet on the ground to
see them.
These shadow effects of the
eclipse may be seen throughout
Alaska—in partial eclipse zones
as well as the area of total eclipse.
Twenty-two eclipses of the sun
are expected in the ten years from
January 1961 to December 1970,
but most of them will occur in dis
tant parts of the world. The last
solar eclipse seen in the U.S. was
in 1943. Alaska was the only part
of the U.S. frow hich it could be
seen. The next solar eclipse visible
in the U.S. will be in 1970, with a
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Studies Being Made of
Transporting Iron Ore
Through a Pineline
CALGARY, Alta. UP) — Studies
are being made of the feasibility
of transporting iron ore through
a piix?line to Tidewater at Skag
way, Alaska, it was announced
here Friday.
A spokesman for Crest Explora
tions Ltd., which has interested
Japanese steel manufacturers in a
huge iron ore deposit in the Yukon,
said the finely-ground iron con
centrated probably would be sus
pended in water.
The deposit, which contains an
estimated 20 billion tons of ore,
is 420 miles from ports in the
Skagway-Haines area of Alaska.
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possible crude oil also could be
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discovery of additional oil fields
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A new and faster interceptor
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More work on developing an
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path of totality extending from
Florida to Georgia.
Astronomers from all parts of
the nation will gather in Alaska
to watch the eclipse, prior to a
meeting of the American Astro
nomical Society which will be
held at the University of Alaska
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