
uninterrupted until the termination of the eclipse which took place at 10h 56’ 22’ Madras Mean Time The color of that part of the Sun which was visible, was during the whole time a perfect white. The Moon so nearly resembling in color and Shade the back ground of the sky, as to be barely distinguish- able from it. The Cloudy and hazy state of the atmosphere was such, that I was able to look at the sun when visible thro the Telescope without using any colored Glass, to the very end of the eclipse. Altho this extremely unfavorable state of the sky induced me to doubt whether the totality of eclipse might not possibly have occurred when the intervening clouds prevented my seeing it. Yet the gradual downward movement of the illuminated part of the sun together with the very small amount of darkness lead almost certainly to the conclusion that the eclipse was not total in the position which I had taken up, Supposing that I had made a mistake with regard to the place, I examined the large Map of India but there found that Catabavah was exactly in the line indicated in the Nautical Almanac. Upon enquiry I found that the eclipse
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- Author
- J.O.E. Ludlow
- Reference
- AP/27/6
- Series
- AP
- Date
- 1844
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On Account of Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on 21st December 1843, 1844. From The Royal Society, AP/27/6
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