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BANACHIEWICZ proposed in 1928, and Bonsdorff and Lindblad carried out later, the precise determination of the instants of totality at distant places— —in different continents—for calculating such distances. It is a sort of triangulation in which the distance moon–earth serves as a basis. Cinematography of the solar crescent and of a time signal with a teleobjective or with an objective-prism was used. The time of totality was calculated by extra-polation of the length of the solar crescent, by observing the cutting of the crescent by the moon‘s mountains and by photometry of the ‘flash spectrum' lines.
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PLATZECK, R., MAIZTEGUI, A. & GAVIOLA, E. Determination of the Instants of Totality in Solar Eclipses. Nature 163, 63 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163063a0
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