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THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE ON MAY 6.—The right ascensions and declinations of the moon for 1883, both in the Nautical Almanac and the American Ephemeris, depend upon Hansen's Tables, with the recent corrections of Prof. Newcomb. They furnish as accurate positions as are obtainable from existing tabular data, and it will be of interest to trace their bearing upon the circumstances of the total eclipse of the sun which crosses the Pacific on May 6. On laying down the belt of totality upon the Admiralty chart of this ocean, it appears that the following islands are included within it, viz.:—Rance, Buffon, Beveridge, Flint, Caroline, and Chanel Island (in the Marquesas); the positions read off from the general chart or for Flint, Caroline, and Chanel Island, from the enlarged Admiralty charts are as follow:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 27, 248 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027248a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/027248a0