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THE NEXT TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE.—In NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 450, we gave some results of an approximate calculation of the total eclipse of the sun on September 8-9, 1885, wherein the central line traverses New Zealand, but does not encounter land in any other part of its course. The correction required to the moon's place there employed is sufficiently important to render a new calculation of interest, and we shall accordingly present here some of the circumstances of the eclipse, resulting from the substitution of the lunar places in the Nautical Almanac, which are founded upon Hansen's Tables, with Prof. Newcomb's corrections. The elements of the eclipse as given in the ephemeris are employed, excepting that in place of Hansen's semidiameter of the moon, we infer the semidiameter from the ratio, 0 2725 of the horizontal parallax.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 28, 208–209 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028208a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/028208a0