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Sep 1927
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1927natur.120..444c&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 120, Issue 3021, pp. 444-445 (1927).
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DR. HIND published some calculations about the eclipse of June 30, 1954, more than half a century ago. He first announced that it would be total in the northern part of the Shetland group, but afterwards cancelled this, stating that the track would lie a few miles north of the group. I made independent calculations of the eclipse some twenty years ago, but a numerical error in the final steps escaped notice; this error caused the track to miss the Shetlands, thus confirming Hind. I have recently repeated the whole calculation quite independently, using Hansen's tables with Newcomb's corrections for the moon, and Newcomb's for the sun; estimated corrections were applied as follows: + 8''.5, -0''.8 to the moon's longitude and latitude, + 2''.3 to the sun's longitude. The error in my former work was brought to light, the two calculations agreeing perfectly in every other respect. The surprising result emerges that Hind's first announcement was correct; the eclipse is total throughout the island of Unst, and in the northern part of Yell and Fetlar. The point taken for calculation, on the north coast of Unst, is 0° 45'.7 W., 60° 49'.4 N. Totality here lasts 117 seconds, the duration on central line being 156 seconds. The sun's altitude is 52° 12'.
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