June 29, 0512 Totality at following 8000 meters summits: K2 (Chogori), Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak - K5), Broad Peak (Falchen Kangri - K3) and Gasherbrum II (K4). The same 8000 meter summits have totality on 11 August 1124 and 13 November 1331. June 29, 1818 Birth of Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). Photographed eclipse of 18 July 1860, studied sun spots. June 29, 1868 George Ellery Hale is born in Chicago. Principally he was an astrophysicist and he distinguished himself in the study of solar spectra and sunspots. He developed a number of important instruments for the study of solar and stellar spectra, including the spectroheliograph and the spectrahelioscope. He died in Pasadena on 21 February 1938, but 10 years later, his greatest dream, the 200 inch reflecting telescope on Mount Palomar was completed. June 29, 1927 From Dorothy Sabin near Clitheroe, England: “I was so enthralled with this celestial shadow tearing across the world that I almost forgot everything else. Hurriedly, I looked above my head. The sky was dark blue, flecked with mother of pearl clouds, wonderfully luminous. I turned east, and there in the sky, between patches of bright cloud was a black disc entirely surrounded by living flames. I did not notice Baily’s Beads, neither did I see the corona. I had not eyes for anything save those leaping, glowing flames. It seemed hardly more then a second or two that they were visible, for the Moon slipped by, and a tiny slit of Sun appeared; instantly it was broad daylight once more. The eclipse was over. Down the hillside we scrambled, our thoughts and minds full of the great sight we had seen. It was not till we see the morning papers that we learned how disappointed thousands of people had been.” June 29, 1927 Gellivara 1073: Minor planet discovered September 14, 1923 by Johann Palisa at Vienna. Named for the small town Gällivare in Swedish Lapland where in the year 1927 astronomers from several countries observed the Total Solar Eclipse of 1927 June 29. Named by the astronomer J. Rheden and endorsed by Anna Palisa. June 29, 1927 If you really speak about England, then the total solar eclipse of 29 June 1927 was the latest indeed. This short eclipse has not been observed by many people. Weather conditions where bad. The centerline was in the north of Wales, Preston and north England. June 29, 1970 Contact lost with first German satellite Azur. Studied interaction between solar wind and earth’s atmosphere. June 29, 1972 Launch of Russian satellite Prognoz 2. Studied sun and roentgen.
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