June 30, 1947 Birthday of Jay Anderson. No one will travel to a solar eclipse without first consulting the weather forecasts of Jay Anderson (Canada). June 30, 1535 In Name in the Window Margaret Demorest proposes that Shakespeares sonnets, nos 1-109, incorporate a calendar for the years 1501-1609, each sonnet corresponding to a year. Peter Nockolds has investigated the 3 appearances of the word Eclipse. Clouds and eclipses staine both Moone and Stunne, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. This Solar Eclipse was not visible from London. June 30, 1954 Felix Verbelen: mijn eerste, bewust waargenomen zonsverduistering deze was van 30 juni 1954. Het werd voor mij een onvergetelijke gebeurtenis. Ik was toen een schoolknaap van pas 9 jaar en alhoewel het een woensdag was werd er toen ook in de namiddag naar school gegaan...”. First solar eclipse of Felix Verbelen. He was 9 years old and remembers the eclipse. June 30, 1954 The last total solar eclipse in Britain before 1999 was 30 June 1954. The about 3 minutes totality was visible in the Faroes and the southern line was crossing the northernmost Shetland. Many people in England do remember this eclipse and is mistaken as total for those, which saw a large partial eclipse. The eclipse track traveled across Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Byelorussia, and Russia. June 30, 1954 Total Solar Eclipse in Scandinavia. Jupiter was invisible and behind the solar disc and which is a very rare phenomenon. Sun, Moon, Earth and Jupiter were on one line. Occultation of Jupiter by the Sun during the complete time of the eclipse. Disappearance of Jupiter June 30, 1954 at 9h03m and reappearance on July 1, 1954 at 2h15m. First contact of the eclipse was at 10h09m and fourth contact at 15h03m. June 30, 1954 Just before sunrise on June 30, astronomers at stations in Nebraska and Colorado attempted the first observation of zodiacal light made while the sun is in total eclipse below the horizon. The eerie phenomenon was that time believed to be reflected from ionic or fine dust particles, National Geographic Magazine June 1954 wrote page 869. Scientists sponsored by the National Geographic Society, and leaded by Dr. George Van Biesbroeck of the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory, would sweep the horizon with fast photoelectric scanners which they hoped they would catch the elusive zodiacal light during the eclipse darkened dawn. June 30, 1973 During the eclipse in Kenya, an object has been photographed. It was detected with several cameras and on more photographs. Till now, the object has not been classified, and it has been called the Dossin-Heck. During the same eclipse Henry C. Courten (New York) and E. M. Pittich (Tzech Republic) did similar experiments to detect sun grazing comets. June 30, 1973 Observation of rainbow during total solar eclipse. Observation from a chartered Chessna plane and at an elevation of 11500 feet: About three minutes before totality, a rainbow was seen to the west. The rainbow was very easy to see and the colors were quite brilliant. After totality a sundog (mock sun) was seen. These were very interesting phenomena. June 30, 1973 Roger Tuthill and Harvard astronomer Donald Menzel received a Legion of Merit award from the president of Mauritania for educating the local population about the eclipse. June 30, 1973 Scientists use a Concorde supersonic passenger jet flying 1250 miles (2000 km) an hour over Africa to extend the duration of solar eclipse totality to 74 minutes, 10 times longer than can be observed from the ground. The Moons shadow moves over the Earth at over 3000 km/h. The white corona was studied on board of the Concorde 001. The Concorde briefly exceeded the speed of the umbra by a few m/sec. This is the first and only time in history this has happened. And before the eclipse, it was not expected to happen. June 30, 1973 Several teams of scientists studied the reactions of people in Africa and South America were surprised to discover the similarity of traditions in places so far apart. June 30, 1973 Picture of Moon next to eclipsed sun in National Geographic, page 469, October 1974: Earth’s Lunar companion passes almost before the sun on June 30, 1973, as seen by a ground controlled camera while Skylab was unmanned. Skylab’s position here makes the bodies appear out of alignment. June 30, 1973 Last total solar eclipse with a maximum duration of totality longer than 7 minutes between year 0 and 4000. The eclipse was visible in Africa. The next total solar eclipse with a duration of totality longer than 7 minutes will be on 25 June 2150 in the Pacific Ocean. Thereafter it will be 5 July 2168 in the Indian Ocean.
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