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WE expect to have during this summer a good many visitors to the far north of Norway under the 70th parallel of north latitude, and close to the frontier of Russia. The total eclipse of the sun on August 9 (a few minutes before 5 a.m.) will attract many astronomers to these high latitudes. The sun will rise only 14° above the horizon during the eclipse, but the mountains here are not so high as to prevent the selection (though with some little difficulty even on the fjords) of places where their height will not prove an obstacle to the observers. In case one is in doubt, our official almanac gives the time when the sun will be visible on May 3; add nine minutes to that time, and it will be the time when the sun will rise over the mountains at the particular place.
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REUSCH, H. The Varangerfjord Region and the Forthcoming Solar Eclipse. Nature 53, 417–418 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053417a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053417a0