Eclipse
SEP 01, 1965
The total eclipse of the sun on May 30, 1965, was observed by scientific investigators from many nations from vantage points along a path sweeping across the Pacific Ocean. The present account was written by a member of the expedition to Bellingshausen, a South Pacific atoll in the Society Islands group.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3047720
Total eclipses of the sun provide astrophysicists with the same excuse for travel as physicists find in cosmic‐ray investigation. Some unkind people have even referred to this as a “racket”. They should attempt unloading several tons of equipment from a boat while standing in three feet of water flowing over a coral reef.
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Serge A. Korff, New York University.
© 1965 American Institute of Physics
